Saudi Arabia's grand mufti has died. Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh was believed to be in his 80s. He died Tuesday, ...

Sheikh, Saudi Arabia's grand mufti who served the kingdom's top religious figure over a quarter century that saw the ultraconservative Muslim nation socially liberalize, died Tuesday. He was in his ...

Noteworthy and influential people who've died this year - The September killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a ...

ROME – Channeling his inner Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Leo met a “Working Group on Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue” yesterday sponsored by the European Parliament and extolled what he called ...

Marziyeh Amirizadeh, sentenced to death by hanging in Iran’s Evin Prison, says the intervention of Benedict XVI in 2009 saved her and another woman from prison and death. Amirizadeh, who now lives in ...

The British star, who played Hyacinth Bucket in the beloved BBC comedy from 1990 to 1995, died ‘peacefully in her sleep’ ...

Dame Patricia Routledge, who played the role of Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances, passed away at the age of 96.

(RNS) — When Pope Leo XIV was elected, many people asked me about him. My response was that we would have to wait six months to a year before we really understand who he is. Four months after his ...

(RNS) — Pope Leo XIV is not going to reject the reforms of Pope Francis, but neither is he going to quickly move beyond them. (RNS) — When Pope Leo XIV was elected, many people asked me about him. My ...

[Editor’s Note: These are the second excerpts of a two-part interview between Pope Leo XIV and Crux Senior Correspondent Elise Ann Allen contained in her new biography of the pontiff, León XIV: ...

Members of the royal family are gathering at Westminster Cathedral in London this afternoon to celebrate the life of the Katharine, Duchess of Kent. She passed away earlier this month at the age of 92 ...

Bishop Michael Martin of the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, said the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) must cease at four parishes and will be only be permitted at a chapel beginning Oct. 2. After ...