The Supreme Court's conservative majority has bolstered religious rights and now could change America's public schools.

E.L. 'Bubba' Henry, who was speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives when Edwin Edwards was governor and oversaw the ...

The world won’t know the next leader of the world’s Catholics until he appears before a throng of supporters in St. Peter’s ...

Every month at the Old Stone House, in Brooklyn, citizens are invited to find consolation in troubled times by writing out ...

Preparations for the conclave to find a new pope have accelerated with the installation of the chimney at the Sistine Chapel ...

Discover the meaning behind conclave, Camerlengo and more terms used as the Catholic Church prepares for a new leader ...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments this week in a case involving St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, which could become the first publicly funded religious charter school in the nation ...

At least he is jailed here in Vermont, unlike Fulbright Scholar Rümeysa Öztürk, who was abducted in Massachusetts on March 25, then hopscotched to New Hampshire and Vermont on her way to a ...

Pope Francis' Camerlengo is Irish-born Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who announced the passing of the head of the Catholic Church ...

The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 was perhaps the worst incident of racial violence in American history. Our history is as ...

Most are governed by a constitution known as Universi Dominici ... They hold daily meetings known as general congregations to ...

Historically, the exact number of votes required to elect a new pope has fluctuated. Under current rules, a minimum ...