ROME — Pope Leo XIV called Monday for an end to the U.S.-Israel war in Iran, issuing a new but still muted appeal as two of his U.S. cardinals condemned the war, rejected the rationale for launching ...

Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who revealed to Congress that there was a secret taping system in the White House, died on Monday at age 99 ...

Mary Stuart's father reportedly predicted that the Scottish throne would end with a woman. But no one could have foreseen the ...

As we journey through Lent, the cross invites us to sit with both anguish and surrender, to encounter grief in its fullness and depth.

Pope Leo XIV on Saturday named a veteran Vatican diplomat as his new ambassador to the United States to manage one of the ...

I don’t often hear the name Claire, so when I do, I light up. And when it’s around Easter, I light up even more. Such was the case in spring of 2020 when I became aware of a video of a little girl ...

Italian Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, a veteran diplomat, has been named new Vatican ambassador to United States, replacing the retiring Cardinal Pierre.

Pope Leo names Archbishop Caccia as new US ambassador to manage relations with Trump - Vatican diplomat Archbishop Gabriele ...

Eight hundred years after his death, the bones of St. Francis of Assisi have been placed on public display for the first extended public viewing in history, drawing hundreds of thousands of pilgrims ...

The remains of St. Francis of Assisi have gone on public display for the first time, marking 800 years since the saint’s ...

The remains of St. Francis of Assisi have gone on public display for the first time, marking 800 years since the saint’s death. The skeleton of the saint was exhumed from its sarcophagus in the crypt ...

The bones of St. Francis of Assisi have gone on public display for the first time in the Italian town of Assisi, where locals are bracing for a crush of pilgrims ...