COMMENTARY: The sounds of bells, the sight of flags, the silence of prayer — all bear witness to lives laid down.

Memorial Day, observed on the last Monday in May, is a day to honor and mourn fallen military service members. NPR readers ...

Mary Theresa Petrich recalled walking from Hatfield Street in Lawrenceville over the 40th Street Bridge and up the hill to St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Croatian Church in Millvale to attend Sunday Mass ...

White, foundress of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. According to this booklet ... visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate ...

Cardinal Prevost was elected pontiff on the second day of the ... and attended church and school at St. Mary of the Assumption Parish on Chicago’s South Side. Their father, Louis Prevost ...

Although Beatrix was from England, the Dutch-Jewish family had been living in Amsterdam where Steven’s father ... Archive/Getty Images) In 1945, on what we now call VE Day, Steven’s mum ...

Catholics suffer from widespread ignorance of important, historical precedents of both female and lay ecclesial leadership.

When Robert Francis Prevost was growing up in a modest house in Dolton, Illinois, no one, not even his neighbors, imagined he ...

He was called by God the Father to minister and offer sacrifice ... a loving self-sacrifice on the holy and blessed seventh day, he images the beasts of the sixth day, which are not made in ...

Mother's Day, celebrated globally, honors mothers and their profound impact. Originating from ancient traditions and Anna Jarvis's efforts in the US, it became a national holiday in 1914. While dates ...

As they waited for the procession to get under way, Prince Louis brushed fluff off his father’s uniformed shoulder ... when they attended the Christmas Day church service on the Sandringham ...

So when is Father's Day, exactly? Learn more about the holiday that celebrates some of the best men in our lives.