Jorge Mario Bergoglio was 17 years old when he first received his vocation to become a priest. It happened on Sept. 21, 1953 – the beginning of spring in Buenos Aires – during a spontaneous visit to ...

Last Sunday, I took a break from the apocalypse to focus on Christmas.

The Oklahoma State Department of Education proposed a new administrative rule on Tuesday that would require school districts ...

Surveying recent U.S. Supreme Court cases involving questions about state funding of religion, federal judge Evelyn Padin ...

Matthew wants us to know from the outset this is a Jewish story, one that connects generations in their relationship with the ...

Maybe it’s possible to have it both ways — to serve the poor while staging Christmas extravaganzas — but I struggle to ...

I called the number and made an intake appointment. I hung up, collapsed in the floor and sobbed uncontrollably for about 10 ...

Loudermilk’s report has implications for how democracy works when there is a transition of power from one party to the other ...

On Christmas Eve in 1741, Moravian settlers named this Pennsylvania city after the biblical birthplace of Jesus. Nearly 300 years later, Moravians continue celebrating their Christmas season ...

Christians in Nigeria plan to celebrate Christmas amid fear of a repeat of violence that claimed at least 160 lives in Nigeria’s Middle Belt at Christmastime in 2023 and dozens in northern Nigeria ...

For decades, Americans United for Separation of Church and State called its adversaries “religious extremists.” Today, the ...

Some 20 years back, a remarkable resurgence of care for orphans began. It united believers across the US and beyond who longed to renew the age-old Christian commitment to children on the margins, ...