A book,” a 20-year-old Franz Kafka wrote to his friend Oskar Pollack in 1904, “must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” ...

On Saturday evening, at the Easter vigil in Tramin, we had our second child baptised. Although many families continue to ...

In the last 100 years, the Catholic Church has only seen eight Popes, including the late Holy Father Pope Francis. The ...

Who is heir to the throne of Wakanda? That’s the question in Marvel Knights: The World to Come, a new six-issue series set in the future of the main Marvel Universe. Decades after Christopher Priest ...

Pope Francis was the first pontiff elected from the Society of Jesus - also known as the Jesuits. Here are some essential facts about the Jesuits.

Shame on him for participating in the public rite for Pope Francis, and shame on the College of Cardinals for allowing him to do so.” ...

A US cardinal accused of mismanaging clerical sexual abuse has been listed as playing an official role in the ceremonies to close Pope Francis’ coffin and for his burial. Cardinal Roger Mahony, the ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- The man who would become Pope Francis always bought his shoes in the same small store. And now, the remarkably ordinary footwear that surprised and charmed millions has ...

The pontiff began phoning Gaza’s Christians every day, more often on the worst days. He was still calling when failing health ...

The Rev. Dan Hess, who studied in Rome while Pope Francis began his papacy, described the pope's call to shake things up as ...