John L. Allen Jr., the fastidious American journalist who demystified Vatican affairs for English speakers for decades, died ...

From the end of the 20th century until his death, Allen was essential reading for anyone who cared about the inner workings ...

Covering the Vatican, he had a front-row seat to the waning years of Pope John Paul II's pontificate and the election of Pope ...

It begins with an extensive history of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Louis Hennepin, a Franciscan missionary from Belgium, was the first Catholic priest to reach Minnesota. Dana Watters ...

John Allen Jr., a longtime Vaticanista and editor in chief of the Catholic publication Crux, died Jan. 22, 2026, at age 61.

The eyes of the world are on Iran, wondering if 2026 might be the Persian equivalent of the Slavic 1989, when the nations of ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Leo XIV, who plays the daily online puzzle Wordle, is not the only papal puzzle lover. His ...

Today in History for Jan. 25: ...

Also on this day, former White Sox manager and pitching Hall-of-Fame Bob Lemon died at the age of 79 in Long Beach, Calif.

Since his election in May as the first American pope, Leo XIV has become a political and temperamental counterweight to an ...

After his death January 10, 2023, it was revealed Cardinal George Pell was the author known as “Demos,” who wrote an ...

On Jan. 10, 1984, the United States established full diplomatic relations with the Vatican for the first time in 116 years.