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Pope Francis named Francesca Di Giovanni, a longtime Vatican official, as an undersecretary in the Vatican's foreign ministry office, making her the first woman to hold a managerial position at the Vatican Secretariat of State.
After decades of anticipation, the Vatican archives are ready to welcome, starting March 2, scores of scholars wishing to study documents related to the wartime pontificate of Pope Pius XII.
The story of my journalism career is here in the stories of strangers. It’s what I made of their accounts, what happened between the handwritten interview notes and the published newspaper articles.
The Religious Freedom Day parade hit the streets of downtown Fredericksburg Jan. 12 to commemorate the 243rd anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s drafting the Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom.
Bishop Burbidge celebrates Mass honoring civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
At the request of retired Pope Benedict XVI, his name will be removed as co-author of a book defending priestly celibacy, said Cardinal Robert Sarah, the Vatican official who coordinated work on the book.
Over New Years’, my wife, Kathy, and I attended the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) SLS20 Conference in Phoenix. We joined approximately 9,000 participants including some 20 bishops, more than 300 priests, a dozen deacons, many seminarians, religious, campus ministry staff, parish volunteers, benefactors, and thousands of students from the 173 campuses that FOCUS serves in the U.S. and Europe and from a number of other campuses.
Elegant, vibrantly emotional adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel from writer-director Greta Gerwig. The familiar March sisters, Jo (Saoirse Ronan), Meg (Emma Watson), Amy (Florence Pugh) and Beth (Eliza Scanlen), are presented in the format of a non-linear memory play, with Jo, first shown as an adult writer, recalling the episodes that formed their characters and shaped their life decisions.
The disappearance of union boss Jimmy Hoffa, who vanished without a trace in 1975, has never been solved. But that doesn't deter director Martin Scorsese from solving the mystery in this epic historical drama, based on the life of union official and erstwhile gangster Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro).
Battles both physical and spiritual play out in this ninth, and officially final, installment in the main body of the blockbuster franchise. With the evil First Order rebranding themselves the Final Order as they prepare to launch a vast space fleet capable of crushing all opposition, General Leia (the late Carrie Fisher), commander of the Resistance, dispatches her ablest follower, Rey (Daisy Ridley), to locate the enemy's secret base. Rey is aided by ex-stormtrooper-turned-Resistance-fighter Finn (John Boyega) and by hotshot pilot Poe (Oscar Isaac). But Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), now the Order's supreme leader, is convinced that he can draw Rey over to the Dark Side to which he, once the good Ben Solo, long ago surrendered himself.
