Today in History for Oct. 6: In 1520, German reformer Martin Luther published his Prelude on the Babylonian Captivity of the Church, his famous writing which attacked the entire sacramental system of ...

Pic of Day: The 8th annual Irish Language Mass took place at St. Barnabas Church in Woodlawn, Bronx, on Sunday, September 14. Standing in for Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-NY) was Joe McManus who ...

In 2012, after years of research, amateur historian Catherine Corless published an astonishing story in a local history journal detailing that 798 children had died at St. Mary's Mother and Baby Home ...

Three Irish boxers make a podium play in Liverpool today. Patsy Joyce, Grainne Walsh and Aoife O’Rourke all fight for World Championships bronze. Joyce is first through the ropes and will look to ...

Four Irish boxers take to the World Championship ring on Saturday. Daina Moorehouse, Matthew McCole, Zara Breslin and Aoife O’Rourke all see action. There’s a meeting of Paris Olympians in Ring A’s ...

Mixed martial arts star Conor McGregor is seeking to run for president of Ireland but has not yet met the eligibility requirements. He is running on an anti-immigration and populist platform, urging ...

Families of the victims of a 2023 mass shooting in Maine and dozens of survivors filed a negligence lawsuit Wednesday against the U.S. government, alleging the military and others failed to respond to ...

Following the deadly mass shooting at a Minneapolis church last week, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at a press conference that he sees mass shootings as “a health crisis.” That much is ...

(WPRI) — School is back in session in Massachusetts and starting this academic year, the MCAS will no longer be used as a graduation requirement. Massachusetts Education Secretary Patrick Tutwiler ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Mass was underway Wednesday morning to mark the beginning of the academic year at Annunciation Catholic School when bullets started flying through the glass. That the shooting, which ...

Following are NCR reader responses to recent news articles, opinion columns and theological essays with letters that have been edited for length and clarity. Revisiting English Mass Thank you Fr.

Guess who’s back? Back again? Secretary of State William Galvin will serve as Massachusetts’s acting governor until Friday afternoon, his office has said. The Thursday announcement from the Boston ...