The Teamsters union began a strike at U.S. Amazon facilities Dec. 19 at the height of the online holiday shopping season to ...

The number of active auxiliary bishops in the Chicago Archdiocese is set to double with Pope Francis' appointment of five ...

During a Dec. 20 Russian missile strike on Kyiv, Catholic St. Nicholas church, a significant architectural monument of the ...

A deal to fund the government and avert a shutdown failed just hours before its deadline, leaving lawmakers scrambling. The ...

In the beginning were the words. J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth -- the world of "The Lord of the Rings" and now the new ...

In the beginning were the words. J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth — the world of “The Lord of the Rings” and now the new ...

Several hundred people gathered at Magdeburg Cathedral in the evening of Dec. 21 for an ecumenical prayer service to remember the victims of the Dec. 20 Christmas market attack in the central German ...

Just four states were responsible for 76% of U.S. executions that took place in 2024, says a new year-end report by the Death ...

Pope Francis will meet with outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden at the Vatican Jan. 10 to discuss efforts to promote peace ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Dec. 20 announced his intention to appoint Brian Burch, currently the president of ...

A retired New Orleans priest who walked back a public admission of sexual abuse will spend his remaining years behind bars, ...

As many as 3,000 Catholic school children from poor families in the Philippines made their pop music debut in a new Christmas ...