c. 2015 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) While baptizing 33 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday (January 11), Pope Francis urged mothers to breast...

c. 2015 Religion News Service (RNS) A nun has been chosen as the next president of Catholic Charities USA, the first time that a woman will head the...

c. 2015 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican on Monday (January 12) rejected reports that it could be the next target of Islamist terrorists...

c. 2015 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) An estimated 5,000 Yazidi women are being held as slaves by militants from the self-declared Islamic...

c. 2015 Religion News Service (RNS) Ostensibly, the horrific attack against Charlie Hebdo in Paris was because of the publication’s satirical images of...

c. 2015 Religion News Service (RNS) A Belgian bishop who has been touted as a future leader of that country’s Catholic hierarchy is making waves by...

c. 2015 Religion News Service (RNS) Leelah Alcorn was a transgender high school student who should never have died at age 17. She lived in a suburb of the...

c. 2015 Religion News Service (RNS) Cardinal Raymond Burke, a senior American churchman in Rome who has been one of the most outspoken critics of Pope...

c. 2015 Religion News Service (RNS) Republicans will take full control of Capitol Hill when the 114th Congress is sworn in on Tuesday, but even with a...