For most Americans, black history begins in 1619, when a Dutch ship brought some “20 and odd Negroes” as slaves to the English colony of Jamestown, in Virginia. Many are not aware that black history ...
BOSTON – Two of Boston’s most venerable institutions are teaming up to create an online database of hundreds of thousands of Roman Catholic Church documents to help people trace their family histories ...
BOSTON (AP) — Two of Boston’s most venerable institutions are teaming up to create an online database of hundreds of thousands of Roman Catholic Church documents to help people trace their family ...
St. Ursus Cathedral in Solothurn, Switzerland, is illuminated at night in this 2010 photo. The Swiss bishops’ conference and religious superiors have strengthened clergy sex abuse reporting rules.