In 1906, tens of thousands of Jewish parents in New York’s Lower East Side and Brooklyn kept their children home from school ...

Leo will commemorate the 1,700th anniversary with Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians.

A passport can inform which government recognizes us on paper. But it doesn’t tell us what holds the nation together, what binds disparate strangers into a people.

The new presidential administration launched the Peace Corps in 1961, fulfilling one of John F. Kennedy’s campaign promises.

The narrow, legal answer is straightforward: An American is a citizen of the United States, born or naturalized. That ...

Patrick said the commission’s goal through the public hearings is to “remind people of this magnificent inheritance that we ...

Lots of organizations start their conferences on a Thursday. And CROSS, the acronym of Catholic Religious Organizations ...

A letter from Democratic lawmakers warned that repealing the Johnson Amendment, set to be discussed in a hearing next week, ...

NEWTON — Aaron Gunsaulus, a former Protestant pastor and new convert to Catholicism, recently sent out a message on X about ...

For Orthodox Christians in America, the 20th century was shaped by waves of believers fleeing wars, revolutions and persecution in lands such as Greece, Syria, Russia and Romania. These days, the ...

The Associated Press has annotated a version of the Nicene Creed used today by Catholics in the U.S. with notes on its controversial history, evolution and variations across denominations.

1. a political concern that the ruling could be the thin end of the wedge and the beginnings of an assault on the ...