An 11th-century monk saw the famous "Halley's comet" first as a child and later as an adult, new research finds. Halley's comet bears the name of the astronomer who famously first described its ...

Richard II is a lesson in how not to do humility. Indeed, it was during his reign that the old forms of royal address were ...

Among all the great English poets across British literary history, Alexander Pope stands with only a few who are pillars of ...

Augustus Tolton was ordained in Rome in 1886. Previously, the only Black Catholic priests in the US had been men who ...

Royal author Robert Jobson explains why King Charles has done almost all he can do to distance himself from his disgraced ...

The struggle between Catholicism and Protestantism came to a head in England when Maria of Modena gave birth to an heir with ...

That’s how James “Jimmy” Boehling was known to many priests around the Diocese of Richmond, Virginia, according to Father Mike Boehling, the vicar general of the diocese. St. Benedict Church in ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. (OSV News) -- Last year Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory became the first African American to participate in a papal ...

Last Wednesday, Jan. 7, Pope Leo XIV gave two talks, one at the weekly general audience and the other to the cardinals at the start of their consistory, that focused on the reception of the Second ...

Prince Harry has reportedly expressed the desire for his father King Charles to visit California when the King is in the U.S. for a state visit in April. Charles is due to visit Washington, D.C. in ...