A conference this month brought together descendants of Jewish families who surrendered their silver heirlooms as part of the ...

Despite the unresolved issues that many Catholics know are long overdue, Francis achieved far more for marginalized people ...

(RNS) — A collective Lenten fast from making purchases at Target has been lengthened into a “full-out boycott,” the Rev.

Father James Martin shares personal memories and insights of his longtime champion and fellow Jesuit Pope Francis, who passed ...

An article that suggested ropes, not nails, held Jesus to the cross caused a firestorm. (RNS) — At the beginning of Holy Week ...

Earlier this year, Pope Francis named the Rev. Emil Kapaun 'venerable,' bringing him one step closer to canonization. The ...

Musicians Janis Ian in 1981, from left, Bob Dylan in 1963, and Leonard Cohen in 2009. (Photos by Eddie Mallin/CC BY SA 2.0; ...

Pope Francis reshaped the church’s financial structures, but internal resistance and ailing revenues mean the new pope will ...

Target announced in January that it would phase out a handful of DEI initiatives, including a program designed to help Black ...

Pope Francis was a man of the people. Will the next pope be?

Jorge Mario Bergoglio became a pope of many firsts: the first modern pope from outside Europe, the first whose papal name ...

In a March 27 executive order, Trump alleged that Smithsonian exhibits had disparaged the nation’s history via a “divisive, ...