His papacy set many new precedents for the church, and his successor will be chosen from a group that he himself quietly ...

For the Catholic Church’s new leader, cardinals could pick a reformist or someone who can heal rifts.

E.J. Dionne does not find the pontiff wanting. He writes that Francis “moved Catholicism’s center of gravity,” and that ...

1976: President of the Young Liberals, Peter Hain, is acquitted of robbing a branch of Barclays bank. On the same day, singer-songwriter Phil Ochs hangs himself at his sister’s home in Queen’s, New ...

In Q&A, UChicago philosopher Agnes Callard talks new book and cultivating an ‘inherently inquisitive’ approach to conversations with others Agnes Callard doesn’t only study and teach philosophy—she ...

Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Bruce Alan Lewandowski as the tenth Bishop of Providence. The 57-year-old Bishop Lewandowski is a native of Toledo, Ohio and a member of the Redemptorists.

We'd forgive you for thinking Footloose is how most people fondly remember Kevin Bacon. The '80s box-office smash in which a youthful Bacon leads a small religious town back onto the dance floor ...

In a heartfelt and unexpected appearance, Pope Francis returned to St. Peter's Square on Sunday, just two weeks after being discharged from the hospital for double pneumonia. Listen to Story Pope ...

Pope Francis was rolled into St Peter’s Square in a wheelchair during a special Jubilee Mass for the sick, marking his first public appearance at the Vatican on Sunday since his release from the ...

In life Francis I, 'Most Christian King' of a France that only sixty years before his accession had finally expelled English occupiers from the realm (and had still to tolerate Calais as an English ...

NEBRASKA CONGRESSMAN DON BACON HAS MADE THE CHOICE TO GROW A MUSTACHE. WE HERE AT KETV WERE CURIOUS ABOUT THE CHOICE AND CAUGHT UP WITH BACON, WHO SAYS IT’S PART OF AN AIR FORCE TRADITION.