In a new exhibit, we are treated to a kind of shrine to the band’s origins.

I was standing in the dumpster looking for food when I was overwhelmed by the thought that I am feeding my family garbage.

While greeting new ambassadors accredited to the Holy See in an audience on December 13, 2018, Pope Francis, in observance of the 70th anniversary of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, urged governments and world leaders to secure peace and promote the "development of each individual and all peoples."

The Holy See's chief delegate at the United Nations climate talks in Katowice, Poland, urged the development of stronger links among nongovernmental organizations in the drive for a final agreement as the two-week conference near its end.

Archbishop Luc Ravel of Strasbourg and Pope Francis decry the terrorist attack that occurred on December 11, 2018 at a Christmas market in Strasbourg, France, where two were killed an twelve injured.

Noteworthy books on the Bible from the past year address a broad range of issues, including the relationship of religion to science and what the Bible has to say about wealth and poverty.

Residents in the community often know who's behind shootings — there've been nearly 600 since 2016 — but the threat of gang retaliation has created an almost impenetrable code of silence.

Promising demographic data can easily be interpreted in a way that overlooks the textured history of Latino Catholics in the United States, one in which the very existence of Latino church communities has often come under threat.

If I had ever managed to find time to take the divinity school course on “Troubling New Testament Texts,” I would have lobbied to include today’s Gospel passage on the syllabus.

This week before “Inside the Vatican” goes on break, we are giving you a round-up of this year’s top Vatican news.

A 2018 study on young adults leaving the Catholic Church found people stopped identifying as Catholics at a median age of 13, long before they ceased attending a parish.

Why is bad news so much easier to believe than the good?

The cardinal is the most senior churchman yet to be convicted of historical sexual offenses. His conviction is a grave blow not only to the church in Australia but also to Pope Francis.

The bill will provide humanitarian relief to genocide victims in Iraq and Syria and hold accountable Islamic State perpetrators of genocide.

Pope Francis has terminated the services of three cardinals who for the past five years were members of his council of nine cardinal advisors.

I like to think of Elizabeth’s unborn baby, the future prophet John the Baptist, dancing with delight in today’s Gospel of the Visitation.

A new study finds higher literacy rates and income levels in the areas around former Jesuit missions in Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.

Born 100 years ago, Solzhenitsyn was not sold on democracy, but battled what he perceived to be an amoral pragmatism.

Join America Media and The Mexican American Catholic College in San Antonio, Tex. as we host a conversation on immigration and the future of the American Catholic Church.