The process of electing a new pope follows rules and rituals that have been followed, and sometimes tweaked, since the 13th ...

Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...

On February 21, the world observes International Mother Language Day. But what is the significance of the "mother tongue?" And why is it called that and not something else?

Lent has a single focus and makes singular demands. Three books explore this focus and offer resources to meet the claims the ...

Temperatures reached 1,000 degrees inside Corpus Christi Church as it burned. Firefighters can’t explain why its stained-glass windows survived.

Carlos Lozada is an Opinion columnist and a co-host of the weekly “Matter of Opinion” podcast for The Times, based in Washington, D.C. He is the author, most recently, of “ The Washington Book: How to ...

Belle da Costa Greene, who was JP Morgan’s librarian, became a lively fixture at Gilded Age mansions, country retreats, auction houses and art galleries. She was also a Black woman who passed as white ...

In the shadow of St Peter’s Basilica, across the piazza degli scalpellini, or “square of the stonecutters”, lies another, more ancient structure.

We’ll need more recourse to liturgical books and printed materials for awhile; we’ll have to think before we speak. There will be mistakes and embarrassing episodes. The process will require a ...

As I listened, I thought that if there was ever an example of not reading a room—this had to be it! Did the pastor lack ...

The health situation of the Supreme Pontiff has got many people thinking about what a new transition at the Vatican would be like.

Parish in 1997, NCR uncovered the groundbreaking ministry of Fr. James Callan, a priest whose daring vision would soon shake ...