Rerum Novarum also had a profound influence on the Catholic Church itself. The document inaugurated what’s now known as ...

1946: Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized by Pope Pius XII as the first American saint. The Italian-American nun ...

July 16 marks 80 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated. The specter of nuclear annihilation has been with us ever ...

Former Sen. Joe Donnelly was the speaker at the Gary Chamber of Commerce’s monthly meeting Monday, and he said the future is ...

The Vatican has officially accepted and approved the investigation into the life of Charlene Richard, known as the “Little Cajun Saint,” in hopes of her eventual canonization as a ...

The Catholic religious order to which the Rev. Freddy Washington belongs says the allegations against him are ...

America is a melting pot of people — and today — more than one million Italian Americans can trace their history back to a ...

A French archbishop’s decision to promote a priest who was sentenced to jail for raping a teenaged boy has drawn new ...

Josh Brooks, a native of Delaware County in metro Philadelphia, dreamed of following in the footsteps of his idol LeBron ...

Mrs. H. P. Swan, president of the Catholic Women’s League, addressing a convention in 1953 ...