Pope Francis was the only pontiff to participate in a joint session of Congress. Here's a look back at his famous address to ...

The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to prepare him to be the Union-saving 16th president as any other aspect of his ...

From Rome to right here in the Capital City, Catholics are now in the nine days of mourning that follow the passing of a ...

Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham ... New Salem, Lincoln encountered the religious and ...