Vice President-elect JD Vance’s wife, Usha, a practicing Hindu, once told him that she believed his 2019 conversion to ...

With his new encyclical, Pope Francis added his voice to this chorus of encouragement inviting people not to lose heart.

"In the journey of life, we could identify hope as the signpost that marks our itinerary," Pope Francis said during a meeting ...

Among the traditional religious activities that can earn one an indulgence — such as pilgrimage to holy sites, acts of ...

Los Angeles officials told most evacuees from the wildfires to stay away from their homes at least another week as emergency responders remove toxic waste from incinerated neighborhoods and cut ...

China has announced that vice president Han Zheng will attend the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump as President Xi Jinping's special representative. This move highlights China's ...

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Robert Califf testifies before a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on President Biden's proposed budget request for the FDA for fiscal ...

Pope Francis has met with more than 100 comedians from across the world, including Jimmy Fallon, Chris Rock and Whoopi Goldberg, at the Vatican in Rome. The Pope said comedians have the "power to ...

7 The purpose of the present Encyclical 4. At all times, but particularly in the last two centuries, the Popes, whether individually or together with the College of Bishops, have developed and ...

Herein lies the beginning and end of the Church's mission to the world. In his encyclical on the Eucharist, Pope John Paul II wrote (#22), "The Eucharist thus appears as both the source and the ...

Our US election blog is returning for Donald Trump's inauguration - starting with a live Q&A with our US correspondents stateside on Friday afternoon, ahead of his swearing in on Monday.

Here are the key developments on the 1,054th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.