For centuries, humans have lived underground. Today, that ancient practice is under dire threat—even as cave life makes more ...

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 18, 2025 / 16:53 pm The international Catholic nonprofit Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) spent more than $150 million on thousands of projects to support Christians ...

The Church’s hymnbook committee chair, Steve Schank, said, “We get feedback on every level. “Nothing happens in a corner or in a vacuum. The leaders of the Church are very involved in this process. We ...

“The Creation of Adam” by Michelangelo Michelangelo was one of the greatest artists who ever lived. He was born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese near Florence, Italy. He became an Italian Renaissance ...

Warning: If you have not yet watched Season 2, Episode 6 of "The Last of Us," you may want to stop reading here, as there are minor spoilers ahead. If you have never seen the series or played the ...

“No one buys a 100-year-old church building without a great deal of planning and soul searching,” Ed Vitunic told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1995. The Pittsburgh Diocese had decided to ...

People who gathered outside the abandoned St. Mary of the Assumption on Thursday mused about what the future might hold for Pope Leo XIV’s childhood church, given its new significance.

VATICAN CITY — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history ...

It wasn’t until Kim Boyd, a longtime friend and employee, suggested turning the church into a wedding venue that Wildwood Plantation began to take shape. Boyd had dreamed of opening a wedding ...

The muggy, summer heat lingered into October. It roasted a lonely building in the back of a foreclosed church in Whitehaven. On October 7, 2014, a 911 call came in about a chilling discovery.

By 2023, 10 years into his pontificate, the percentage of women in the Vatican workforce had risen from 19.2 to 23.4%. More broadly, Francis gave women the power to vote for the first time at a ...