BOSTON – Growing up, the toughest person in Coach Tom Coughlin’s life was not the local playground bully, the wise guy at the school bus stop, or any one of his rough and tumble friends. No way. Not ...

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy – Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly, a U.S. astronaut, met briefly with Pope Benedict XVI at the end of the pope’s weekly general audience Aug. 8.

EMMITSBURG, Md. – In the final days of June 1863, the Civil War came perilously close to home for the Daughters of Charity in Emmitsburg. Days before the Battle of Gettysburg, the acres of their ...

TORONTO – The Second Vatican Council was the biggest stage in the history of the church. There were more bishops present than at any of the 20 previous councils stretching from the First Council of ...

Ethel Kennedy, the wife of the late U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and a mainstay in American politics for decades, died Oct. 10 ...

More than two dozen popes have celebrated Mass under the giant canopy that rises over the main altar of St. Peter's Basilica, ...

Several parishes across the diocese welcomed pets Oct. 3-6 in celebration of the Oct. 4 feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the ...

A new film depicting the life and work of Father Edward J. Flanagan titled “Heart of a Servant: The Father Flanagan Story” will be released in theaters across the United States for one night Oct. 8.

Most people claim they want unity, but usually they mean they want others to unite around their own point of view, which ...

WASHINGTON – He doesn’t exactly advertise it, but the “king of Queens” is a Catholic family man. Kevin James, who played Doug Heffernan for nine seasons on the CBS sitcom and has since branched out ...