VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV vowed to take “every effort” Wednesday to work for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine and ...

US Catholicism knows Jews well, and that familiarity may pave the way for the new pope to improve Jewish-Catholic relations, ...

After the 1804 Haitian Revolution – the uprising against French colonizers that led to the creation of Haiti – the nation became the first in the world to permanently ban slavery. For this reason, ...

After his father died, Mark Charles Roudané, a retired Minnesota schoolteacher, began going through his dad’s papers. There were scores of binders, the records of a life as a prosperous, white, ...

Following the death of Pope Francis, the conclave of cardinals that gathered at the Vatican wasted little time choosing a new ...