VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A quiet alliance between North and South American cardinals helped elect the first US-born pope.

In the early modern period, it was not rare for the ruler to claim the divine right to rule and to proclaim himself above the ...

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It claims to reveal who exactly killed Jesus Christ - and that man even has a statue erected in the Vatican City ...

Pope Leo XIV met JD Vance, the US vice-president, after calling for peace in “martyred Ukraine”. On Sunday morning, Mr Vance ...

The Vatican said some 200,000 people attended the Mass at St. Peter’s Square, which marked the start of the pontificate of ...

Lessons Jeremy Guthrie learned on the Major League Baseball pitching mound — and during two full-time missions — continue to yield blessings.

It has been a very painful Holy Week and Easter for our brothers and sisters in the Holy Land; so, we ask you to show you ...

While there is no Scriptural blueprint for modern politics, warnings against power-hungry leaders and commands for people of ...

It has been a very painful Holy Week and Easter for our brothers and sisters in the Holy Land; so, we ask you to show you ...