Italian nun Sister Raffaella Petrini was named Saturday as president of the Vatican City State. That makes her essentially ...

On Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor, killing 260 crewmen and leading to a U.S. declaration ...

Pope Francis has been admitted to a hospital in Rome for tests and treatment for bronchitis, the Vatican announced, ...

Pope Francis has faced numerous health challenges in recent years, and yet still has maintained a busy schedule of meetings, Masses, and travel since 2020.

The whole semantic field of 'tool' and 'instrument' is fraught with negative moral connotations. St. Ignatius’ writings , however, show a different tendency. There, 'instrument' both serves as a ...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has decided to delay work on a $1.2 billion project meant to prevent invasive carp from reaching ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is on his first overseas trip and met Wednesday with NATO and Ukrainian defense ministers in ...