The U.S. scores in five of the eight categories examined were worse than they were in 2007, the first year Pew started researching the subject.Read More

Jim O’Leary spent 44 years as a senior scientist at the Maryland Science Center.Read More

Sister Rose Marie of the Queen of Angels was a Parade All-American and then set a Villanova scoring record before choosing a life of prayer.Read More

Several hundred gathered in Prince George’s County to enrich liturgies and ministries and promote evangelization at parishes serving Black Catholics,Read More

A Vatican synod in October will consider the church’s ministry in a politically, culturally and ecologically complex region where indigenous people face increasing threats.Read More

The pope said the current situation in the South American rainforest “is a sad paradigm of what is happening in many parts of the planet.”Read More

Opening the Vatican tombs of a princess and a duchess July 11 in a search for the remains of a young Italian woman missing for more than 30 years, the Vatican found no human remains at all. “The search had a negative result,” said Alessandro Gisotti, interim director of the Vatican press office. “No human...Read More

With a shared-economy premise that's no doubt meant to be timely and an odd-couple pairing as hoary as David Letterman's beard, "Stuber" (Fox) takes viewers for a spin. But the result is no joy ride.Read More