Five U.S. adoptees took off from Houston on Friday to reunite with their birth families in Chile for the first time after ...

In the 1960s, most Catholic school teachers were members of religious orders. Now, many schools have one or two, or no nuns at all.

Also, archaeologists found a pharaoh’s tomb. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

Pope Francis was admitted to hospital last week and Catholic figures are discussing the possibility of him stepping down as ...

Explore the legacy of the Medici family through its most influential figures, from Cosimo the Elder to Catherine de' Medici.

Legend has it the axolotl was not always an amphibian. Long before it became Mexico’s most beloved salamander and efforts to ...

Read the address Father Michael Bruno, dean of seminarians at St. Joseph Seminary and College, delivered to attendees at the ...

Debut filmmaker Beth Lane's emotional documentary about her family highlights the importance of not being complicit.

Vital humanitarian activities that Jesuit Refugee Service leads in nine countries remain in jeopardy, JRS says, even after a ...

Eleventh-hour negotiations by Qatar, Egypt and the US pulled the fragile truce back from the brink, allowing the release of ...

This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Manila. Fought in the closing months of World War 2, the operation to ...

On an unseasonably warm Friday evening, dozens of Seoul singles met, mingled and played icebreaker games in the hopes of ...