Radicondoli, a small medieval town in the hills of Tuscany, is giving out financial incentives to ease the cost of living and ...

Pope Leo XIV was elected as the Catholic Church's 267th leader on Thursday. The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel released a plume of white smoke on Thursday evening local time, signaling that ...

COMMENTARY: The Church continues to be inspired by the rich insights and vitality of the last ecumenical council.

Chinese cities are continuing to bolster their reputation for innovation, with Beijing, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) and Shanghai ranking among the world's top 10 in the Global ...

Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ civil rights organization released its 14th annual Municipal Equality Index (MEI), the only ...

The Catholic Church has a long history of supporting environmental stewardship. This tradition got a recent boost. The late Pope Francis’ goal of powering the Vatican by 100% solar energy is happening ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Tuesday doubled down on the value of monogamous marriage between a man and woman, responding to concerns raised by African bishops about the practice of polygamy in ...

The human brain experiences five distinct eras as we age, and each is defined by changes in our neural architecture that influence how we process information, new research shows. The brain changes ...

What started as a childhood collection of celebrity artifacts became a calling for Father Richard Kunst, who now has the largest collection of papal artifacts outside the Vatican. While visiting the ...

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ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV fixed a technical glitch on Friday in a Vatican law that became problematic after Pope Francis named the first-ever woman to head the Vatican City State administration. US ...

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