A woman known as the ‘fastest nun in the West,’ who served areas of Santa Fe and Albuquerque in the late 1800’s, is one step closer to becoming a saint in the Catholic Church.

Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton founded the first congregation of women religious in the US and the first US Catholic girls’ school ...

Ancient, repurposed parchments reveal hidden and forgotten traces of Iceland’s history. Iceland has a long and rich literary ...

The heady world of the early Christians began with Jewish followers of Jesus and later became dominated by Romans attracted to the still-new religion.

The recent grand reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris may be looked upon as the dawn of Western revival.

Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett each had a different vision of reproductive freedom. Would reproductive rights be more ...

When we think of Rome and the Pope, we don't necessarily think of a Greek Pope. However, many Popes in the past had been of Greek origin.

Cosenza, a talented Lexington musician who performed with a litany of bands and worked on more than 100 albums, died Feb. 18 ...

We don't have to go very far back in time to an age when the city's streets were unlit and unpaved, livestock roamed freely, ...

Nigeria hosts some of the world's oldest churches, serving as pillars of spiritual growth and driving progress in education, ...

Mobley watches the body of her son, Emmett, being lowered into his grave. Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images JANUARY 1 1804—Jean Jacques Dessalines pro­claims the independence of Haiti from France.

Vilunya Diskin has lived in Greater Boston since the '60s, and in her 20s, she was a member of a local 13-member collective ...