The pope’s embrace of literature and history is a sharp contrast to some of his predecessors, a medievalist explains.

Final results from the LHSAA girls Division IV, V powerlifting championships at the Pontchartrain Center in Kenner. Lifts are in order of squat, bench press, deadlifts and total weight. Team totals ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis returned home to the Vatican on Sunday after he was hospitalized for five weeks with a ...

A weak and frail Pope Francis has returned home to the Vatican from the hospital after a five-week, life-threatening bout of ...

(Pope Paul IV, Mysterium Fidei) 6. Jesus wants you to do more than to go to mass on Sunday. "Our communal worship at mass must go together with our personal worship of Jesus in Eucharistic ...

Long before the current Sixers season went sideways, one of their fans, a 31-year-old CDL trucker named Ricky Pope III, ...

In “John Paul II, the Feminist Pope” (Houses of Worship, March 14) Erika Bachiochi reduces the pontiff’s teaching to sound bites about abstract “equality” so that it conforms to the ...

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake and an aftershock measuring 6.4 rocked Thailand and neighboring Myanmar on Friday, bringing down a ...

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake and an aftershock measuring 6.4 rocked Myanmar and neighboring Thailand on Friday, destroying ...

Here’s a look at the Vatican, also known as the Holy See, the spiritual and governing center of the Roman Catholic Church. Facts The full name of the country is State of Vatican City. It stands on ...

The life of Karol Josef Wojtyla, better known as Pope John Paul II, represented hope and strength to many people around the world. Millions have joined together in mourning his passing. And though his ...

1. Pope Paul VI With his trip to Colombia in 1968, Blessed Pope Paul VI became the first Pontiff to visit Latin America. Although he was only in Bogota from the 22nd to the 25th of August on the ...