Gisella Cardia purchased a statue of the Virgin Mary at Bosnia and Herzegovina's Medjugorje, where thousands of religious pilgrims flock annually. The Sicilian native created her own pilgrimage site ...

These sites each have a unique history and hold significance in their local region, helping Catholics to encounter God in new ...

With the New York Stock Exchange moving part of its operations to Dallas and a separate Texas Stock Exchange in the works, ...

I have to admit that I had a hard time finding the motivation to do this year’s comment roundup (and likely wouldn’t have without Drewbert’s encouragement). This may have something to do with why a ...

The latest wave of consolidations in the Diocese of Joliet follows other controversial closings in recent years. While "budgetary issues" are cited as among the factors, church officials refuse to ...

Pope Francis was admitted to hospital for bronchitis treatment Friday and has canceled all scheduled events for the next three days, according to the Vatican.

Why didn’t the United States annex Canada during earlier historical periods? In short, because it didn’t want to. President ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

The survivors of Auschwitz returned to mark the 80th anniversary of their liberation from the death camps.

The Archdiocese of Cincinnati and the Dioceses of Sioux City, Iowa, and Norwich, Connecticut, all received new appointments.

D.C.'s Howard University is the only historically Black university to receive one of the nation's highest research ...

Christianity is by far the largest faith in America, and Christian conservatives have a strong grip on the levers of ...