When America’s first state-sanctioned same-sex marriages took place in Massachusetts on May 17, 2004, Wilson and Compton’s ...

With the Vatican’s strong backing, the right-wing government of Premier Giorgia Meloni has mounted a campaign to encourage at ...

The pontiff asked nations to help women juggle motherhood and work, create job security for young people and help couples buy ...

Human life is not a problem, it is a gift,” said Pope Francis at a meeting on Italy's longtime decline in births and ...

The outreach, reflecting the most radical stage of his papacy, has prompted backlash while also altering the lives of the ...

The United Methodist Church removed on Wednesday its longstanding ban on ordaining gay clergy, formalizing a shift in policy ...

Generations of Catholics who embraced the modernizing tide sparked in the 1960s by Vatican II are increasingly giving way to ...

Proudly wearing a rainbow-colored clergy stole and a rainbow flag tucked into her clerical collar, the Rev. Elaine Saralegui welcomed all to her LGBTQ+ inclusive church in the Cuban port city of ...

Pope Francis sat down exclusively with “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell on April 24 for an interview ahead of the Vatican’s inaugural World Children’s Day ... pope about “the migrant crisis, ...

Pope Francis meets inmates at the Giudecca women ... you are not a digital profile, but a child, that you have a Father in heaven and therefore you are a child of heaven,” he said, saying ...

Julia Sotirianakos, CEO of Reach For A Dream, emphasised the importance of community support. “Our children endure unimaginable hardships in the hospital every day. “This year, we urge ...

When Justin Kuritzkes began writing what later became the hottest love triangle of the year, there was no star power involved. Though he was already an accomplished playwright and novelist (and ...