VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Leo XIV has expressed interest in visiting Algeria, a trip that would mark the first papal visit to the North African nation and highlight its small but symbolically ...

For nearly 70 years, people from around the world visited St. Benedict’s Monastery in Old Snowmass, a place many called “a ...

What would the collapse of civilization look like? We might immediately think of cutoff utilities, disruptions in the supply ...

Two Scripture passages guide his approach. The first is 1 Peter 3:15, which calls for being ready to defend one’s hope with ...

Agnes and Peter strip naked and douse themselves with gasoline. Agnes proclaims her love. They light a match.

Romantic 'poetic decay' notions have left Ireland with crumbling abbeys, monasteries, and friaries. We should be inspired by ...

Demons, by contrast, were almost always malevolent tricksters who served the Devil. Demons lacked knowledge of what it meant ...

Statists denounce self defense as “vigilantism,” declaring that only the “defense” services provided by the state are ...

Iceland's turf houses historically flourished on the northern island but fell out of favour in modern times; now, the ...

Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, better known as El Cid, cultivated his own personal army, made up of both Christians and ...

One of the first megastars of modern American sports, Babe Ruth helped usher in the Roaring Twenties with his seemingly superhuman athletic abilities and outsized personality. He made good on a ...

Confronted by a confusing and complex national history, Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk decided to embrace myth rather than ...