I wanted to learn more about this remarkable parish, and how it formed a thread that was connected to the rich legacy of my ...

Almost 22% of U.S. residents age 5 and older spoke a language other than English at home, double the share from four decades ...

Here's how the Turkish city of Gaziantep became synonymous with baklava, the sweet pastry made of layers of phyllo dough, ...

Pilgrims from the Philadelphia region mourned during the funeral of Pope Francis and celebrated the election of Pope Leo XIV ...

Eddie Gaedel is born in Chicago on June 8. Despite his career lasting just a single plate appearance, the 3-foot-7 Gaedel is ...

The former Cardinal Robert Prevost has led some two dozen public events but not made notable appointments, nor announced ...

His first foreign trip is likely to be to Turkey ... of an early Church council. Francis, originally from Argentina, visited the U.S. in 2015, immediately after making a trip to Cuba. He visited ...

The creed set the standard for orthodoxy for 1,700 years. But no one professes the faith today in the ancient Turkish town where it was written. All the Christians will be tourists. This year ...

“Together, we must try to find out how to be a missionary church, a church that builds ... Francis had been invited to travel to Turkey to commemorate the 1,700th anniversary of the First ...

The private Catholic university in the suburbs of Philadelphia has a new most famous ... had just become the new pope. Church bells rang out for hours on campus, and professors toasted with ...

From the outset he recognized the need for a shift within the Catholic Church, which had lost the ... While in Istanbul, Turkey, in November 2014, Pope Francis frees doves as an act of peace ...