The ceremony was the first local ordination in the era of Pope Leo XIV, who was elected to the papacy on May 8, succeeding ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pope, became a rare case of an American citizen serving as a foreign head of state.

Ten years ago, Pope Francis' groundbreaking encyclical Laudato Si' sparked a global awakening among Catholics and others to ...

The Medieval city of Bruges, Belgium marked a centuries-old tradition with veneration of the UNESCO-honored Holy Blood ...

But time moves on. The role of the Church has changed. Irish Americans, like the Irish at home, have drifted from the altar.

Leaders of the nation’s most powerful evangelical church try to cast women out of the ministry, igniting struggles over power ...

More than 1 million people flocked to venerate or honor these relics when they first visited the U.S. in 1999 and 2000.

State rodeo law also requires that injury reports be submitted to the state Veterinary Medical Board. These reports are ...

In an upper room above those streets, the Book of Acts tells us, disciples of Jesus, recently crucified, cowered. Yet, filled ...

Pharmaceutical companies are making billions on treatments that can sometimes overpromise and underdeliver for terminal cases ...

Two years after his coronation, King Charles' reign is shaping up as both eventful and oddly unchanging in its core narrative ...

President Trump, now convicted of felonies himself, pardoned the former Illinois governor on Feb. 10, 2025 — almost five ...