And the cathedral’s 140 bells will ring out in concert. December 12 is the feast day for Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patron saint of the church and of Mexico.

The Metropolitan Cathedral’s communications office in Mexico City expressed its dissatisfaction with the projection of pro-abortion messages on the façade of the church during a show organized ...

MEXICO CITY, Mexico — A Mexico City march organized for International Women’s Day turned violent Sunday, when some demonstrators vandalized public structures and monuments, Church buildings ...

But last year Mexico and Vatican City made peace (TIME, July 1, 1929). Mexican churches reopened for services, not, however, the Cathedral. Three and a half centuries had weakened the structure.

Borda built palaces for himself in Taxco, Cuernava.ca, Mexico City; he built a paved road all the way across the mountains to the capital; and for $1,680,000 he built Taxco’s lovely pink ...