Vincent Lambert, who suffered serious brain damage more than 10 years ago, died after years of court battles.

“American Heretics: The Politics of the Gospel” is about like-minded liberal Christians joining forces in a ruthlessly Republican landscape where people talk more religion than they practice.

Opening the Vatican tombs of a princess and a duchess July 11 in a search for the remains of a young Italian woman missing for more than 30 years, the Vatican found no human remains at all.

Catholic Community Services in the Tucson Diocese has reached a tentative agreement with Pima County to turn an unused juvenile detention facility into a temporary shelter for asylum-seekers.

An exhibit on Chinese empresses featured a rare display by two Jesuit missionaries whose artwork was in the past largely seen only by royalty and high government officials.

The complex process of examining bones and extracting DNA will be crucial in determining whether the remains in a small Vatican cemetery belong to Emanuela Orlandi, a young woman who disappeared in 1983, a Vatican-appointed forensic anthropologist said.

An Encounter with Silence

I have learned that belief is not unique to those who consider themselves religious.

The Franciscan sister moved to Kermit, West Virginia, 10 years ago, just a few months after the now infamous FBI shutdown of a town pharmacy.

China's ruling Communist Party has carried out a widespread crackdown on all religious institutions in recent years.