July 16 marks 80 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated. The specter of nuclear annihilation has been with us ever ...

A slew of parishes were set to close or consolidate July 1, including Oakbrook Terrace’s Ascension of Our Lord Catholic ...

The Trump administration is encouraging people to have more children, with baby bonuses and tax breaks. But some families who ...

On the 175th anniversary of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini’s birth July 15, the sisters of the order she founded continue on wit ...

Bishop Bohdan Manyshyn is Auxiliary Bishop of the Eparchy of Stryi in Western Ukraine and head of the Military Chaplaincy ...

Whether they renounced their status because they were forced to or because they chose to, many of these royals took ...

"Mother-and-baby homes" were institutions in Ireland where unmarried pregnant women and their children were housed. They were characterised by harsh conditions, high mortality rates and a lack of ...

Ireland began excavating remains of up to 800 infants buried for decades in a septic tank behind a home for unwed mothers – one of the so-called "Magdalene Laundries." ...

Sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancies are particularly common for college-aged people. A 2023 report from the CDC found that nearly half of all reported cases of chlamydia, ...

Her heritage, as a scion of Boston Brahmins and the mother of biracial children, shaped a discursive verse style that veiled ...

Catholic schools may be the best place for children with special needs, because they root each child's identity not in ...