In a Rizal walking tour during the recent Frankfurt Book Fair, historian Ambeth Ocampo managed to humanize our national hero, ...

Father Patrick McCarthy was brutally murdered in 1988. The two half-brothers in prison for the killing say he sexually abused them for years ...

A committed and sensitive writer, Erpenbeck tackles the major themes of contemporary history and politics in her novels ...

As the Archdiocese of Dubuque finalizes plans to reduce weekend Mass locations, Catholics consider the implications to ...

As church bells chime and peal the New Year, historians say the looting of more than 150,000 bells during World War II left ...

Early churches throughout the United States of America were typically formed by people sharing a common ethnic or ...

The domains of the Habsburgs formed a politcal and cultural patchwork that would come under increasing strain.

This Christmas is more special than any I have experienced before, as if heralding a renaissance of all that is right with ...

German dictator Adolf Hitler once set out to destroy the Catholic Church: his regime shut down Catholic schools and arrested priests and nuns, imprisoning them en masse in the infamous concentration ...

When the Alternative for Germany, an extreme-right party, came in a close second in general elections at the end of February, German bishops reiterated their previous instruction to German Catholics ...

Growing up in Germany after World War II, HoPe Raguth remembers walking the grounds of the Auschwitz concentration camp trying to fathom how the generations of his father and grandfather stood idly by ...