Like a lot of kids, gay, straight, and in-between, Cade Bradley recalls his middle school years as having been a “socially ...

A Vatican commission for the protection of children has said the mishandling by the Catholic Church’s leaders of sexual abuse ...

COMMENTARY: After an eight-year hiatus, the grand old New York hotel will once again serve as the site of the annual Al Smith ...

The Catholic pontiff cited Gaza, Ukraine, Haiti, and Afghanistan as examples of countries where 'poverty has become the daily ...

Pope Leo XIV met with Italian President Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinal Palace in Rome on Tuesday, highlighting the strong ...

The Vatican has taken the unusual step of announcing that it had named judges to decide the fate of a famous ex-Jesuit artist ...

The Democrat, 82, left office in January after he dropped his reelection bid following a disastrous debate against Republican ...

Hope and joy are wonderful gifts. The hostage crisis ends, the endless bombing and killing in Gaza stop. You would not think ...

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Venezuelan campaigner Maria Corina Machado. Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel committee that selects the winners of the prize, ...

- World record sprinter and eight-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt, who tested positive for COVID-19 after celebrating his 34th birthday, Aug. 24: "Just to be safe I quarantined myself and just ...

Here is a selection of quotes from world leaders and ordinary people about the global COVID-19 pandemic, which has now killed more than 1 million people.

The former Joan Bennett was a model and classically-trained pianist when she married Ted Kennedy in 1958. Shed died on ...