For those (arch)dioceses that do not mark today as the Ascension, the liturgical calendar allows celebration of the optional ...

And there will, indeed, be plenty to celebrate when St. Paul Church holds a special service ... on the corner of River Street and what is now New York Street before finding permanency in 1865 ...

THE MARKET: Visit the Columbia Art Market — Art in the Alley — during the May 30 block party on Columbia Street from 6 p.m.

Majorities want the church to allow use of birth control and IVF, and to permit priests to bless same-sex couples. But views ...

New York. Juan Carlos Toapanta, foreground, and Martha Dominguez, background, receive acupuncture treatments in the sanctuary of St. Paul’s-San Pablo Lutheran Church, which recently added ...

The pope’s favorite baseball team, the Chicago White Sox, congratulated the pontiff on its jumbotron following his election.

Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times John Prevost knew there was a chance his brother could be elected pope. “Last Saturday when I was at church ... including Pope Paul VI who delivered ...

The New York Times reported ... of the Italian clergy in the Church. Despite Italy’s papal preeminence, there hasn’t been an Italian Pope since Pope John Paul I served for 33 days in 1978.

‘The Shakers: A World in the Making’ positions the 18th-century sect as a pioneer of simple, functional and democratic design ...

Brother Bednarczyk, the superior general of the congregation of Holy Cross and the first brother to serve as the superior ...

Sandra McDonough, 88, a retired New York Public Library chief clerk with a kind and gentle manner and a passion for nature ...