A New Orleans genealogist has found that the first U.S.-born pope has Black and Creole roots -- and the discovery illuminates the nation's rich multiracial history, the experience of Bla ...

The Vatican announced the election of Pope Leo XIV shortly after white smoke blew from the roof of the Sistine Chapel on ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on April ... send a consent form to an immigrant to inform them of their right to decline an ICE interview. In 2018, Philadelphia ended ICE ...

Instead, he shielded clerics and their records ... high school in Philadelphia. Newman was sentenced to prison in 2009 for stealing nearly $1 million from his religious order.

A lovable grouch, obsessed with the magic of American sidewalk harmony, runs the Philadelphia ... record store in the world and collectors fly in from the U.K., Germany, Japan and wherever else ...

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Catholic Human Services, the umbrella entity for charitable works of mercy performed by the Catholic Church of Philadelphia, ...

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michelle Harner's order seeks to preserve victims’ rights under the Child Victims Act while the ...

175 pages of once-secret meeting minutes from the San Francisco Archdiocese’s Independent ... is the nitpicking of survivor stories in order to find fault.” In at least a half-dozen cases ...

SEATTLE — The Archdiocese of Seattle is pushing back against a new Washington law impacting clergy, as the Department of Justice is investigating what it’s calling “anti-Catholic” legislation.