Influencer Paul Kim is reflecting on the loss of his 5-year-old son Micah, who died on Dec. 31 after contracting a serious ...

Pope Benedict XVI (1927–2022), the 265th pope, served from April 19, 2005, to February 28, 2013—a period of 7 years, 10 months, and 10 days. He voluntarily resigned from the papal office. On February ...

Michael Szczerban began chasing his literary white whale one afternoon in 2013. He was editing Samin Nosrat’s cookbook “Salt Fat Acid Heat” when she mentioned “The Talisman of Happiness,” a collection ...

Pope Leo XIV praised the “silent and hidden love” of cloistered nuns who, he said, are free from the slavery of society’s focus on outward appearances. Focusing on the contemplative dimension of the ...

Justice cannot just be done. It must be seen to be done. That’s why it was important that the leaders of the Third Reich were not simply shot as enemies but stood public trial for their monstrous ...

Pope Leo XIV, writing in the first major document of his pontificate, has denounced the “dictatorship” of economic inequality while insisting the Catholic Church is committed to supporting “rejected” ...

“Never meet your heroes” is an old adage, but it’s apparently one that Surrealist superstar Salvador Dalí never paid much mind. In fact, even after a disappointing meeting with the father of ...

A newly created Catholic diocese in China’s Hebei province ordained its first bishop, selected under the recently renewed but secretive Vatican-China agreement on bishop appointments, says a report.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Giuseppe Wang Zhengui, 62, was installed and ordained as the first bishop of the new Diocese of Zhangjiakou, China, on Wednesday (Sept. 10) in an important milestone for a ...