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

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People walk at the site of a Russian missile strike near St. Nicholas Catholic Church in Kyiv, Ukraine, Dec. 20, 2024, amid ...

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

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

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

Members of the Haitian National Police carry the casket of Mario Jean-Louis, a police officer who was killed in a ...

The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, the nation's patronal church, has been named ...

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The role of the U.S. ambassador to the Holy See is unlike any other in American government. It deals, as articulated well by ...

For Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, driving home for Christmas means taking a different route each year -- in ...