Peru’s ambassador to the Holy See has publicly invited Pope Leo XIV to visit. The invitation, delivered during a Saturday ceremony in the Vatican gardens, confirms that 2026 is shaping up to be an ...

He seemed to know everyone at the Holy See, and it showed in his reporting for the National Catholic Reporter and his website ...

Pope Leo XIV has told the Vatican doctrine office to uphold truth, justice and charity when deciding clergy sex abuse cases ...

Pope Leo calls Holocaust Remembrance Day a "painful remembrance" during a Vatican audience, urging vigilance against genocide ...

Gold crosses, priceless art, sprawling cathedrals—there’s no denying the Catholic Church is rich. It built its massive wealth ...

In 1998, a quiet Jesuit theologian named Jacques Dupuis was summoned to Rome. His recent book Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism had stirred both admiration and alarm. Dupuis had ...

The History channel’s popular alligator hunters are back in the season 17 premiere tonight, January 7 at 8 p.m. The show follows a group of alligator trappers during the 60-day Louisiana alligator ...

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Monday gave a final accounting of its 2025 Holy Year, saying more than 33 million pilgrims had participated and that the only real dispute with the city of Rome concerned ...

*The HISTORY Channel will premiere its gripping new series “History’s Deadliest with Ving Rhames” on Monday, January 26 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. Hosted and narrated by Golden Globe-winning actor Ving ...

Indigenous leaders waited on the snowy tarmac at Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport Saturday as the precious cargo was unloaded from an Air Canada jet. The boxes contained more ...

Faiths Vatican report says church teaching bars women deacons, but stops short of final ruling (RNS) — A Vatican-appointed commission says current church teaching does not allow women to be ordained ...

In the early days of the internet, the History Channel was a place for factual, historical programming. However, that era has passed, and today's network, now just called History, has shifted focus.