When a person dies, certain rituals are observed if the body remains at home overnight. Among Catholics, the funeral never ...

Pope Leo XIV is getting used to being pope at the six-month mark, following his shock election in May and sharp learning curve over the summer.

The "Come, Follow Me" study guide for Nov. 3-9 covers Doctrine and Covenants 125-128, which includes further revelation about baptisms for the dead. Read what Church leaders have said about these ...

Many of the ancient Irish holy men and women came to us from the early, misty days of Christianity in Ireland. On All Saints' and All Souls' Days, it's a good time to remember some of them.

For many years, women’s advocates in France have been frustrated by the absence of consideration of consent within the country’s rape and sexual assault laws. That’s finally changed, thanks in large ...

To the casual observer, it is a beautifully preserved 18th-century chapel, a relic of a bygone era.  But after dark, it is something more ...

Meghan wore Queen Mary's Diamond Bandeau Tiara when she married Prince Harry at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle that ...

A few thousand pilgrims, many of them young families with multiple children and the women covering their heads with lace veils, packed the altar area of the basilica to standing room-only capacity.

Metro systems in Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo, above, have already introduced “Women Only” carriages - Junko Kimura/Getty Last week, I was sent one of those Change.org petitions, asking me to ...

A top American cardinal has celebrated a traditional Latin Mass in St. Peter's Basilica with the explicit permission of Pope Leo XIV, a significant departure from Pope Francis, who had sharply ...