"Vatican II did not drop out of the sky," writes Michael Sean Winters. "There were three essential precursors to St. John XXIII's decision in 1959 to announce he was calling an ecumenical council." ...

One of the most important strategies of my Happiness Project has been keeping my Resolutions Chart. It provides accountability, it prompts me to review all my resolutions once a day, it gives me the ...

This eighth article in the series continues to chronicle the people, milestones and defining moments in the history of the ...

Former Akron North High School basketball star had fun losing each night as a member of the Washington Generals.

John Carr's vocation was as a layman working to help the church share, apply and act on the principles of Catholic social teaching. Now retired, he looks back on his 50 years of service and shares ...

He was born in Youngstown, Ohio, on May 29, 1958, a son of the late Andy and Ann Pavlick Chapella. John graduated from Struthers High School in 1976 and attended YSU for two years. John worked at the ...

“THE document that inspired the convocation is one of the great encyclicals of the century. Unusually long for a papal pronouncement—more than 15,000 words—Pacem in Terris was issued by John XXIII on ...

The Rhode Island attorney general's office identified 20 clergymen never put on the diocese's credibly accused list. Here's ...

An American author’s statement that Msgr. Angelo Roncalli, who later became Pope John XXIII, Issued thousands of false baptismal certificates to enable Jews to escape from the Nazis during World War ...

John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, whose love story is now being revisited in a Ryan Murphy limited series, died in a tragic plane accident in July 1999 Jordana Comiter is an Associate Editor ...

The late 1950s were as though the world was opening up in the most optimistic manner possible. America was still in the post-war high and the families were flocking to the suburbs and the open road ...