Montreal is home to one of the largest and oldest St. Patrick’s Day parades in North America and for the 200th time organizers are celebrating the annual spectacle.

As Pope Francis prepared to spend the 12th anniversary of his election at Rome's Gemelli hospital, people at the Vatican and around the world were responding to his most frequent personal request.

Pope Francis' condition continues to be stable and a chest x-ray "confirmed the improvements recorded in the previous days," his doctors said, but without saying his double pneumonia had cleared up ...

The Permanent Council of the Canadian bishops’ conference has expressed its “grave concerns” to the Minister of Finance over proposed changes to eligibility criteria for charitable status.

Mark Carney will soon be sworn in as Canada’s prime minister based on 129,000 votes cast by 100 per cent Liberal party delegates who represent .322 per cent of Canadians.

The fall of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria in December was viewed by the country’s minorities with a mixture of cautious optimism and apprehension. Just three months later, a wave of violence has made ...

Pope Francis is no longer considered in imminent danger from his lung infection, but he will remain in Rome's Gemelli hospital for several more days to continue receiving medical treatment, the ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said March 10 that just 18% of programs of the now-shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development will remain intact, and those will now fall under his purview ...

Syria's top Christian leaders have condemned the killing and wounding of hundreds of Alawites, many of them civilians, by security forces and gunmen linked to the country's new Islamist rulers.

As season five of the hit television series *The Chosen* launches, Noah James said audiences are in for a surreal experience as the story approaches Holy Week.

On Jan. 16, Mark Carney launched his campaign for the leadership of the Liberal Party. If successful, the former Governor of the Bank of Canada would become the 11th Catholic prime minister of Canada.

Poland's day of prayer for victims of clerical sexual abuse, scheduled each year for the first Friday in Lent, was overshadowed March 7 by a controversial opinion from the legal council of the Polish ...