Henry Louis Gates Jr., who hosts the PBS series “Finding Your Roots,” said he handed the pontiff a copy of his family tree.

Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...

A local historian went to Rome for the first time during the conclave. But he wasn’t expecting ‘that’ kind of history.

Shelton is at the beginning of what many people feel could be a great tennis career. However, he has yet to win a major title ...

The State Department began laying off more than 1,300 workers Friday, proceeding with long-expected staff cuts that ...

A woman draped in pearls, her hands clad in dainty gloves walks down a luxuriously carpeted hallway, the sound of clinking ...

In a maximum-security facility in upstate New York, students tackled Samuel Richardson’s “Clarissa” and Tolstoy’s “War and ...

Francis-aligned’ bishops are following the late pope’s lead in stirring debate where politics and pastoral issues meet.

The Catholic religious order to which the Rev. Freddy Washington belongs says the allegations against him are ...

Nearly 100 American men and women from the United States are currently being considered for sainthood. And many Catholics ...

Caribbean Carnival that laid the foundations of Notting Hill carnival commemorated where it all began at Camden Town Hall ...

Working on the Homefront, 1942-45" exhibit features about 50 photographs of workers at Grumman, Sperry, Republic and Liberty.