The surge in blessings reflects enthusiasm over the start of a new pontificate and highlights a traditional practice that ...

It’s troubling that we’re actually hitting record low here when it comes to fertility in America,” sociologist Brad Wilcox ...

Evangelical Christians are a fervent force in ‘Apocalypse in the Tropics,’ Petra Costa’s bracing film on Brazil’s upheavals.

Italy has ignited international debate by moving to criminalize surrogacy beyond its borders. In July 2025, the country's ...

A new law allows trans Cubans to update their identification cards by request without providing proof of genital surgery.

"Mother-and-baby homes" were institutions in Ireland where unmarried pregnant women and their children were housed. They were characterised by harsh conditions, high mortality rates and a lack of ...

Excavations begin Monday of an unmarked mass burial site at a former mother and baby home in western Ireland suspected of ...

Ireland began excavating remains of up to 800 infants buried for decades in a septic tank behind a home for unwed mothers – one of the so-called "Magdalene Laundries." ...

Citing a shortage of priests, the Catholic Diocese of Grand Rapids has laid out a plan to reorganize a number of parishes, including tagging as many as four churches for sale — though it also ...

Cardinal Robert McElroy, the Archbishop of Washington, has strongly criticized the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, describing the rounding up and deportation of immigrants as ...

Catholic school fires teacher after his husband's obituary reveals their marriage Mark Richards says a parent complained to New Orleans' St. Francis Xavier Catholic School after reading his late ...

DMV employees are denying some REAL IDs because marriage licenses prior to 1986 had no place for a bride's new surname.