Though for some the federal holiday, which falls on May 26 this year, also signals the unofficial start of summer, there’s ...

For years, it was just a spooky school rumor — a body buried in the church basement — until someone opened the vault.

Madeleine Astor was 18 and pregnant when the Titanic went down; she remarried twice and enjoyed a life of privilege, ...

John Shanley, a native of Albion, New York, moved with his family to ... Days later he was buried in St. Mary’s small cemetery. However, he wouldn’t stay there for long. According to a story ...

One cannot help but feel that, even as our servicemen continue to serve and die in foreign lands, the significance of ...

We can think of cemeteries as spooky places scarred by sadness, or as beautiful and instructive windows into the lives of ...

Two U.S. Catholic bishops expressed their "profound grief and outrage" over the May 21 killing of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington.

A century-and-a-half ago, two Black families — the Murrys and Thomases — lived and farmed in a small community on the corner ...

The crowd at St. Peter’s ... footsteps,” said John Joseph Prevost, brother of Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, Credit...Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times John Prevost knew ...

This long weekend brings parades, concerts and solemn ceremonies honoring Memorial Day. It’s also a time for celebrating ...