Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

Whether the motivation is a boycott of the United States over its current posturing towards Canada, the ongoing affordability crisis or a host of other reasons, it is clear a greater number of ...

Perched on a hill overlooking the town of Alès, the site, which was salvaged before construction on modern houses began, also ...

Author Sarah Robsdottir's new novel 'Joan of Arkansas' brings Joan of Arc to modern times, tackling issues like bullying, ...

Amid a record number of baptisms, turning the page on the abuse crisis and rapidly changing society, an "Observatory of ...

Tucked away in the Picardie region of northern France, not far from Lille, Rouen, or even Paris, this city remains ...

Father Rupnik has been accused of the sexual and psychological abuse of dozens of women under his spiritual care in the late ...

The newly appointed Pope Leo XIV has some surprising distant Hollywood family members, including Justin Bieber and Madonna.

It turns out, the newly appointed Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost) has an astonishingly celebrity-ridden family ...

Addressing thousands of pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Basilica June 14 for a special Jubilee audience, the pope said the Holy Year 2025 must be lived as a mission of communion, rooted in the ...

Only in recent decades has the modern Catholic Church had popes with pastoral experience outside of Western Europe. Pope John XXIII served as a diplomat in Bulgaria and Greece (as well as France) Pius ...