Pope Leo XIV tops a new Gallup poll on world leaders, appealing to U.S. residents broadly in a politically divided -- and divisive -- nation.

Bishop Mark A. Eckman of Pittsburgh is calling for prayer, following a deadly explosion at a US Steel facility in ...

President Donald Trump said Aug. 11 he will place the District of Columbia's Metropolitan Police Department "under direct federal control," activate the National Guard, and "get rid of the slums" in ...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services reportedly closed off a pathway for citizenship for immigrants who apply for green cards through a spouse or other family members, raising the prospect of ...

Tarah Hazard sat in a neighborhood park last year as her 2-year-old son played by himself in the sand. Hazard yearned for friendship — for herself and her son — but as was so often the case, no other ...

In his early 20s, Marcus Roesler, a parishioner of St. Francis Xavier in Shafer, said he felt influenced away from the ...

Stories about "the first 100 days" are standard fare at the beginning of a U.S. president's four-year term; the articles ...

March 7, 1965 -- approximately 600 peaceful demonstrators approached the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. They had begun their procession less than a mile away at the Brown Chapel A ...

For Father Fernando Mañó Bixquert, a special calling to evangelize can be traced back to Valencia, Spain. He wanted to do ...

Archbishop Bernard Hebda recently offered a glimpse into preparing for the next few years of pastoral care in the Archdiocese ...

Staff of a charity serving Haiti are pleading for the return of a kidnapped Irish lay missionary and her companions -- including a 3-year-old child -- taken by armed gunmen who stormed an orphanage in ...

The 143rd Supreme Convention of the Knights of Columbus opened in Washington Aug. 5 with a call to charity, unity, fraternity and patriotism, as Supreme Knight Patrick E. Kelly urged members to be ...