The emancipation took place on June 19, 1865, two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation ...

Pope Leo XIV appealed against the recent senseless killings of people in Benue State, Nigeria. He said:"On the night of 13th/14th June, in the town of Yelwata in the Guma Local Government Area, in ...

In newly formed Black congregations, the famous abolitionist and others were able to live out their faith—and affirm their ...

The story of the AIDS movement is one of regular people: students, bartenders, stay-at-home mothers, teachers, retired lawyers, immigrants, Catholic nuns, newly out gay men who had just arrived in New ...

Some had lost friends or lovers. Some felt a moral calling. Some were just trying to balance their sexual karma. Many were angry. Most had no medical background or professional credentials – just a ...

Thousands of people from across the region gathered Saturday at the home of the Chicago White Sox for a Mass featuring a ...

Vevette Hill-Nwagbaraocha attends All Saints Catholic Church, also on the north side. She, too, is hopeful and excited about Pope Leo, regardless of how he identifies. But his lineage, she said, ...

Italian Catholics like my grandfather and great-grandfather—along with other Catholic immigrants from southern and Eastern Europe—may not have been black, but they weren’t quite white either.

One has danced atop the dugout at Rate Field. Another earned a Topps trading card for throwing a perfect strike. And a third ...

Pope Leo wore a Chicago White Sox baseball cap after a newlywed couple from Massachusetts gave it to him during a general ...

Trump has praised the Gilded Age as a time of national prosperity thanks to tariffs, no income tax and few regulations. Similar to today, the late 19th century was a time where a small group of men ...