AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas would make Bible stories required reading for more than 5 million public school students under a proposal that has reignited debate over widening efforts in the U.S. to put more religion in classrooms. A final vote by the Republican-controlled Texas State Board of ...

Our current culture is quite fascinating; we seem to have multiple cultures all going at once. Perhaps this is due to the multiple devices we find in our lives, all delivering messages. These multiple devices focus on many different points of view. What has this impact on the community? It has ...

To mark the 250th anniversary the United States, Catholic bishops from across the nation will come together Thursday to consecrate the country to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The church service, part of the bishops' spring assembly meeting in Orlando, Florida, draws from a mainstream, ...

BARCELONA, Spain — Pope Leo XIV celebrated the Sagrada Familia Basilica as a masterpiece of "stones, colors and light," as he marked the centenary of the death of its architect, Antoni Gaudí, with a Mass on Wednesday to inaugurate its final soaring sandcastle spire. Leo called Gaudí's ...

ARGUINEGUÍN, Spain — Pope Leo XIV traveled to a once-notorious epicenter of the European migration debate on Thursday, challenging countries to uphold migrants' rights while shaming those leaders, including Christians, who turn them away with indifference. Leo issued an impassioned plea to ...

WASHINGTON D.C. — The Catholic archbishop of Washington, D.C., Cardinal Robert McElroy, on Wednesday removed a well-known priest as an exorcist of the archdiocese after he made public comments suggesting that UFO sightings were the work of demons. McElroy said the archdiocese also was ...