VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The first American-born pope may have brought Washington and Rome closer symbolically, but not ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on July 7, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event ...

The Vatican’s response was swift and brutal. Today, it announced that not only have the four new bishops and the two ...

Decades later, a Charlie Chaplin melody gave words to everything she had survived. In 1936, Charlie Chaplin made a film ...

The last of Ireland’s Magdalene laundries, workhouses for “morally wayward” women, closed in 1996. Since then, the institutions’ many horrors have come to light, but misinformation has also been ...

ST Maria Goretti, whose feast is celebrated today, is one of the youngest canonised saints in the Church. Her powerful ...

Louisiana’s execution debate raises a deeper question about justice, mercy, deterrence, repentance, and the traditional ...

The Vatican has responded aggressively to a traditionalist society that consecrated bishops without the pope’s consent.

Vice President JD Vance met briefly with Pope Francis on Sunday to exchange Easter greetings, after they got into a long-distance tangle over the Trump administration’s migrant deportation plans.

The skies over Icone, Switzerland were bright blue on July 1 as ceremonies began for the consecration of four new bishops by ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivered a Fourth of July message that sounded like America is on its death bed.