The appointment marks a major step in Pope Francis’ aim to give women more leadership roles in governing the church.

At a Mass celebrated at New Orleans' St. Louis Cathedral, a church leader acknowledged the sense of unease that remains after the New Year's Day truck attack in the French ...

As usual, I’m late to a 7 a.m. weekday Mass, and I sneak into the last pew for the Gospel. It’s the one about God knowing ...

You describe the "Book of Before & After" as "an attempt to render into English, for the first time in a form ready for the ...

And on a day devoted to fresh starts and new beginnings, say a prayer that someday his family and friends may find peace.

Among the 14 people killed in the New Orleans attack: a warehouse manager, an account executive, an aspiring nurse and two ...