The killings marked the first day of what is now known as the Marzabotto Massacre, a large civilian massacre in which ...

History was made in the Sistine Chapel on Thursday as Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III prayed side by side, marking the first time since the Protestant Reformation that a reigning British monarch and ...

Sixty years ago, on Oct. 28, 1965, the Second Vatican Council adopted, and Pope Paul VI promulgated, the Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, known by the first ...

When I was in seminary back in the mid-1980s, I was informed by some of my seminary teachers that the old funeral (requiem) Masses were a very dark affair. Black vestments and somber prayers, all ...

On October 23, King Charles and Queen Camilla embarked on a state visit to the Vatican to meet Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pontiff. Their visit marked the first time in 500 years that a ...

Mourners have gathered for the funeral of Keeping Up Appearances star Dame Patricia Routledge. The service at Chichester Cathedral in West Sussex heard Dame Patricia described as an actress of ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV called for “deep reflection” in the United States about the treatment of migrants held in detention, saying that “many people who have lived for years and years and ...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Leo XIV on Saturday bestowed one of the Catholic Church's highest honors on St. John Henry Newman, the deeply influential 19th- century British convert and theologian, declaring ...