The Rule of St. Augustine offered monks a firm structure for their daily lives of work and prayer, even before the mendicant ...

Francis, an Argentine who was the first pope from outside Europe since the eighth century, still picked more cardinals from ...

Since the Middle Ages, the Holy See has positioned itself as the preeminent mediator for international conflicts regardless ...

Catholic worshippers have for weeks flocked to Alba de Tormes, a town ringed by rolling pastures in western Spain where the ...

The name "Europe" goes back to ancient myth—a Phoenician princess, a god in disguise, and a continent shaped by legend.