Two days after the Lager Beer Riot, on April 23, 1885, Chicago citizens convened at South Market Hall for a public meeting on ...

Having weathered the Catholic Church’s suppression of their culture ... but the first official expedition to the ruin wasn’t until 1848. Even “Tikal” is a relatively recent name, derived ...

He was born Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin on June 7, 1848, in Paris to a political journalist ... pose and the Celtic superstitions overlaid with Catholic rituals that pervaded daily life.

Pope Francis sought to make the church more welcoming, global and collegial, after his predecessors adopted more doctrinaire ...

Remembering Pope Francis, the Catholic Church leader who broke with tradition 10:43. Rome — Pope Francis, who challenged ...

Pope Francis is being remembered as a pastoral leader – and in some ways, his treatment of women in the Catholic Church was ...

Mourners young and old flocked to Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Northeast D.C.

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Adherents are reviving old practices and growing more assertive in the battle for the future of the Church—and the nation.

The death of a pope, and the election of a new pontiff, is adorned with high ritual and elaborate ceremony. For more about how the Catholic Church will celebrate and mourn Pope Francis, and what comes ...

A Catholic church in Queens was engulfed in flames less than 24 hours before worshippers were set to gather for Easter Sunday mass. The fire broke out at Saint Edmund Church of the Holy Trinity ...

Francis has revolutionized the College of Cardinals by passing over large archdioceses like Los Angeles, Venice and Milan in ...