The horrifying story of the Catholic-run institutions that incarcerated thousands of women and girls Many readers, and surely most Irish readers, will finish this book in a state of white-knuckled ...

More than half the women who appealed their compensation for having been in Magdalene laundries received additional payments, a report published on Monday revealed. Of the 231 cases reviewed by ...

Soon to go on display at the National Gallery of Art in DC, it took a female artist to portray the biblical figure not as shamed and repentant but in the throes of ecstatic rapture A woman knocks her ...

History was made on Sunday in St. Peter’s Square when Pope Leo XIV declared Carlo Acutis, the 15-year-old tech prodigy known as “God’s Influencer”, the first Millennial saint. Acutis, known as “God’s ...

FLINT, Texas (KLTV) - A marble statue of Jesus has been left without hands or a nose after an act of vandalism at St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Church in Flint. According to the Smith County Sheriff’s ...

The relationship between St. Joseph High School and the Order of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament goes back over 155 years. In 1866, St. Mary’s Catholic Church reached out to the Order with ...

Mary Magdalene's encounter with the risen Christ near the empty tomb is depicted in a stained-glass window at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Malverne, N.Y. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) Today is ...

CHESTER — In his masterful new play, "Magdalene," playwright Mark St. Germain imagines a fateful meeting between Mary Magdalene and the apostle, Peter, 18 years after Jesus’ death. The setting — ...

WILLOWICK, Ohio (WJW) — Church festival season is right around the corner. Making sure those celebrations stay safe is a top priority for organizers and police departments across Northeast Ohio. The ...

An ancient depiction of a naked woman hung on the wall of my father’s study. Skeletal, stupefied, and wildly bedheaded, she contemplated distances across time and space, as saints and mystics do. As ...

The Gospels give some intriguing clues to the identity of Jesus’ famous follower—who was unwed, moved freely, and provided for the Apostles out of her own resources. A Renaissance (c. 1524) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 6—The Diocese of Manchester has purchased the former Magdalen College campus in Warner, church officials announced Thursday.