Named to lead New York's vast Catholic diocese, Edward Egan was elevated to cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 2001. Look back ...

Yet while white people felt welcomed, many Black residents said their civil rights were violated. In 1971, after a trial, U.S ...

In the Polish village of Konotopa, near Toruń, the construction has begun of a Virgin Mary statue that will measure more than ...

Pope John Paul warned the world on Sunday at the crowning event of his pilgrimage to his Polish homeland that the ... reiterating the church's stern rejection of euthanasia, the cloning of human ...

It was a truly powerful sight: the Polish pope who had grown up under Nazi occupation kneeling in prayer at Auschwitz's Death Wall. There, in June 1979, John Paul II asked God for peace during ...

An Anzac memorial honouring fallen soldiers has been doused with red paint while a statue honouring John Batman has been ... Mar Thoma Church, which serves Indian people here, they’re involved ...

He was editorial secretary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and in 1991, Pope John Paul II named the theologian an auxiliary bishop of Vienna. After being appointed coadjutor archbishop of ...

For the second time in less than a year, a historic church in the Northern ... decades-old baby Jesus statue from a Christmas nativity inside the National Shrine of St. John Neumann.

This includes bassist and multi-instrumentalist John Paul Jones, the most reserved member of the group. There are two songs by the band he openly hates. The first is the heavily reggae-influenced ...

The theft of the statue was announced a week after a thief broke into St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church in Center City and stole a 125-year-old golden crown from atop a statue of the ...

When John Lennon wrote songs, he always wanted one pivotal factor ... What’s most interesting about the song is that Paul McCartney completely misinterpreted what Lennon was attempting to write about.

NEW YORK (RNS ... But at Riverside Church, the soaring sacred space founded in 1930 by oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, it was not lost on anyone at an interfaith, social-justice-oriented ...