Fresh off her trip to the Vatican, Sister Norma Pimentel says she is heartened by a recent letter from Pope Francis condemning the deportation of ...

Past efforts to allow more religion in public schools have been hamstrung by legal challenges. But those on the religious ...

Three Republican judges heard oral arguments Wednesday after a lower court blocked Attorney General Ken Paxton’s efforts to ...

Those housed in the O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, including such names as Melissa Lucio, have had their lives touched by a ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

A series of earthquakes near the Greek island of Santorini have led authorities to shut down schools, dispatch rescue teams ...

We were in luck, the porter said: It was a feast day. The relics of the monastery’s saintly founder were on view for public veneration. As a Catholic and a medievalist, I can never resist meeting a ...

A total of 15 of the 31 seats in the Texas State Senate were up for election in 2024. The chamber's Republican majority increased from 19-12 to 20-11. All 31 seats in the Texas State Senate were up ...

Home to a small community of less than 30 Trappist monks, the Monastery of the Holy Spirit was established back in 1944 when a group of monks left an abbey in Kentucky with the goal of founding a ...

M.L. 17 The Nun’s Story (1959), director Fred Zinnemann Gaby van der Mal (Audrey Hepburn) joins a Catholic convent to fulfil her dream of missionary work as a nurse in the 1930s Belgian Congo.

an area with a large Catholic population. The attack took place on the 15th of January, and saw almost all of the village entirely destroyed, including the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Mary, a ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Over the last 10 years, I've become accustomed to life in Texas. I'm Australian, but my wife's Texan, so we spend two months a year living in ...