Often people who don’t go to church think that those who do go spend their time there singing hymns. Yet there is no explicit ...

Today, on the feast of Pope St Pius V, the Church remembers a pope whose legacy was not merely administrative, devotional, or ...

The Vatican has issued a final warning to a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics. It says their planned consecrations ...

The Archbishop of Mbarara, His Grace Lambert Bainomugisha, has pledged to formally sign and incorporate more than 600 Runyankole-Rukiga Catholic liturgical hymns composed by the late John Bosco ...

The earliest surviving poem in the English language has been discovered in the National Central Library of Rome ...

Old-fashioned sleuthing and modern technology have led to the discovery of a manuscript containing a poem written by a farm ...

Ancient poem rediscovered: A 9th-century Old English version of 'Caedmon’s Hymn' was found in Rome, preserving the poet’s original Northumbrian dialect. Why it matters: The find highlights Old English ...

The Vatican is sending new signals about how it intends to minister to LGBTQ+ Catholics in the Pope Leo XIV era.

There are an estimated 42 million indigenous people in Latin America, according to the World Bank report "Indigenous Latin America in the Twenty-First Century". Among the countries with the largest ...

May 8, 2026 • In Colombia, a plan to cull Pablo Escobar's invasive hippos is challenged by an Indian billionaire's offer to relocate dozens of the animals to India's wildlife reserve instead. May 7, ...

May 6, 2026 • I've been dying to interview Argentine artist Milo J ever since he came to NPR earlier this year to perform at the Tiny Desk. The 19-year-old started his career as a trap artist, but his ...