Nero, Rome’s emperor from 54 to 68 C.E., rose to power at a young age and remained focused on himself, letting the needs of ...

Pope Leo XIV has decided to declare John Henry Newman a “doctor” of the church, bestowing one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors on the deeply influential 19th Anglican convert who remains a unif ...

At just 31, Mark Twain sailed to Europe and the Holy Land on the steamship Quaker City, an excursion that resulted in his ...

Sister Albertine, a youthful French Catholic nun, stood outside the Vatican, phone in hand, ready to shoot more videos for ...

The Cathars appeared in Europe in the eleventh century, their origins something of a mystery though there is reason to ...

Archaeologists working at a site in Spain say they have uncovered evidence of what may have been a synagogue used by a ...

What can a fifth-century text by St. Augustine tell us about the priorities of the two most powerful American Catholics?

On Betty Lou Oliver's last day of work, on July 28, 1945, a B-25 bomber plane crashed into the Empire State Building and sent ...

In many parts of Latin America, evangelical churches have grown at a feverish pace. In tiny Ecuador, they’ve had huge success ...

Cardinal Nsubuga, who was away in Kyankwanzi, issued the government with an ultimatum demanding that it either apologises or ...

In an era of declining vocations to the priesthood in America, the Diocese of Bismarck in North Dakota is helping lead the ...

When people hear the name Claudia Heffner Peltz, it’s often in relation to her billionaire husband, Nelson Peltz, or her glamorous children, ...