Humans are endlessly fascinated by space. Its sheer vastness makes it full of unknowable possibilities – and novelists, ...

This week’s Earth Day commemoration is the first since the United States officially adopted the falsehood that conservative evangelicals have embraced for decades: That people concerned about the ...

In a recent article, a computer engineer presents the unconventional argument that the true location of the biblical Garden ...

It was just a year into his time as pope that John Paul II made his first trip to the United States, creating memories that many Iowans won’t soon forget.

Pope Francis, the first Jesuit and Latin American pope, redefined the papacy with prophetic compassion, humility, and bold ...

Few moments in Pope Francis' papacy better exemplify his understanding of climate change and the need to address it than the rain-soaked Mass he celebrated in Tacloban, Philippines, in ...

The last pope buried outside the Vatican was Leo XIII in 1903. Francis’s will stipulated a simple burial "in the earth, ...

After the weight of 15 years of carrying Ghost got too much, Tobias Forge needed something special to get his mojo back. He ...

Francesco leaves the chronicles forever to enter History. Also in that of the city of Rome, where he has been a father, ...

Throughout the nearly 12 years that followed their initial encounter, Schmalz said he has sought to serve as an “artistic soldier” for the pontiff, who died April 21. He artistically spotlighted ...

Barron noted “that’s Francis” as he recalled several of the pope’s personal styles such as his humor, his “personal simplicity” and his application of the Bible’s teachings.

That choice was a tribute to St. Francis of Assisi and set the stage for Pope Francis’ entire pontificate, in which he showed ...