A calendar featuring close-ups of young, handsome priests has been a popular Rome souvenir for two decades. However, many of ...

From Pérez Prado's "Mambo No. 5" to Linda Ronstadt's Canciones de Mi Padre, these releases represent the diverse ...

The funerary marker, which surfaced on a New Orleans property last year, once belonged to a Roman soldier who died nearly ...

Rosanne Cash writes about "Merry Golden Tree," a ballad that traveled from Europe to America’s shores carrying the seeds of folk and country music.

Colombian folk music icon Totó La Momposina, known as the “Queen of Cumbia,” has died. She was 85. The Colombian Ministry of ...

Few of us really understand much about our mother’s lives, but thanks to the work of researchers, we know more about Pope Leo ...

When Robert Francis Prevost stepped onto the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica one year ago, his first speech was, in ways that would only become clear over the year that followed, a preview of what was ...

When Robert Francis Prevost stepped onto the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica one year ago, he carried with him a piece of ...

When Robert Francis Prevost stepped onto the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica one year ago May 8, he carried with him a piece of paper on which he had carefully written the first words he would utter as ...

I was disturbed by the latest act of political violence in our country, the attack targeting the president that took place last month in Washington, D.C. We thank God this attack was stopped by ...

American states traditionally redraw their congressional districts every 10 years. Recently, states have begun redrawing districts mid-cycle to give a political advantage to a particular party. Texas, ...

In the 20th century, Chicago was to American Catholicism what New York was to finance or Hollywood to film -- central, influential and formational.