The name Advent (From the Latin word Adventus, which signifies a coming) is applied, in the Latin Church, to that period of the year ... as though it were a second Lent, though less strict ...

Time flies by when you’re leading the Atlantic Division, but the Toronto Maple Leafs are halfway through the regular season, ...

Women dressed as angels, hands clasped in prayer, passed through New Orleans to celebrate the first parade of Carnival season ...

The singer-songwriter and social activist best known as one-third of the folk-music group Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at ...

A total of 14 officers were sacked by Avon & Somerset Police for gross misconduct in 2024. They included a pair of female constables whose appalling treatment of a vulnerable woman trying to jump off ...

Four up-and-coming Scottish bands are on the bill at Glasgow’s Pavilion Theatre, at a Mayfest concert sponsored ...

Brazilian authorities are gathering in capital Brasilia to mark the second anniversary of an alleged coup attempt by supporters of former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro ...

The U.S. is reeling from a pair of New Year’s Day attacks in Nevada and ... All topics are likely to be discussed on this week’s Sunday shows. Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro ...

At two key moments in the liturgical year, the church invites us to celebrate the joy of faith: Laetare Sunday (the fourth Sunday of Lent) and Gaudete Sunday (the third Sunday of Advent ...

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be enrolled, each ...

The world's oldest person is now 116-year-old Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, who was born 16 days after Tomiko Itooka.

Golden Globes, Kristen Bell jokingly called out husband Dax Shepard for sneakily watching an NFL game between the Detroit ...