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

Since the Middle Ages, the Holy See has positioned itself as the preeminent mediator for international conflicts regardless ...

For more than 26 years, Pope John Paul II traveled the world with a silver pastoral staff topped with a dramatic, abstract ...

Bishop Steven J. Raica, head of the Catholic Diocese of Birmingham, has announced priest assignments for more than a dozen churches in North Alabama.

Clothes can be used to deceive you into thinking someone is not who they appear to be. That is why con artists who prey on ...

Maverick's Wood Grill and Bar (11328 W. River Rd., Champlin): The neighborhood eatery is closing on May 31 after 18 years in ...

One former student called the longtime University of Chicago Divinity School professor "an intellectual who loved to think." ...

First of two parts The specific contribution that St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus offers as a saint and a Doctor of the Church “is not analytical and scholarly.” It is more synthetic, “for her genius ...

Early Indian republicanism can be traced back to the independent gana sanghas, which appear to have existed between the sixth and fourth centuries bce. The Greek historian Diodorus Siculus, describing ...

Last summer, Ingram announced that Give Hope would dissolve, and this past Friday, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced a settlement between his office, Give Hope, Brian and his wife ...

On May 2, 80 years to the day of the German surrender, we finished our “peace trip” in the Italian Minister of Defense ...

More than 80,000 ancient manuscripts from the Vatican Library will be restored and digitized thanks to an agreement with the ...