Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, 2010 Nobel Laureate in Literature, died in Lima on April 13. His critics and followers ...

Over the coming days, tens of thousands of people are expected to pass through St. Peter’s Basilica to bid farewell to Pope Francis. His funeral Mass is scheduled for Saturday.

The funeral rites take place in three parts, called stations. The first takes place in the pope’s private chapel, after ...

Most Americans may not regularly attend church themselves, but they have a higher threshold for calling someone a regular ...

It’s easy to label someone who never goes to church as nonreligious, but when you go one layer deeper — to the afterlife — you can see that there’s still a whole lot of people with some level of ...

When Jessica Yeroshalmi started her political science degree at Baruch College in New York six years ago, she was surprised to learn that some students in her classes had no idea there were Jews with ...

The Dalai Lama has these hopes for Tibet, but as someone who knows the feeling of having governance forced upon him all too well, he does not say that these conditions are the absolutely correct ones.

Pope Francis — the first pontiff from the Americas, who clashed with traditional Catholics but was hailed as a reformer by progressives — died on Monday, a day after Easter, at age 88. The pope had ...

Pope Francis’ funeral will be held this Saturday in a ceremony to be held in St. Peter’s Square. The funeral Mass will be celebrated by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the dean of the College of ...

Political and religious leaders from around the world offered condolences and tributes following the death of Pope Francis on Monday. The White House’s official X account posted two photos of the pope ...

In the still 5 a.m. darkness, street lights flicker as cars circle to find parking. Friends and families embrace at the base ...

The university system is under attack. Professors risk careers by publicly speaking out on issues of intellectual freedom. Campuses have become tinderboxes. Meanwhile, the lines between church and ...