Clarkson Covered Bridge, located just outside town, stands as Alabama’s longest remaining covered bridge. The picturesque structure spans Crooked Creek, surrounded by peaceful grounds that include a ...

Hundreds of thousands of people gathered at the Vatican to pay their final respects and witness the funeral mass for the leader of the Catholic Church on ... (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) Cardinal ...

The Catholic Church is pushing back against a new law that was rushed through the legislature by Democrats over concerns of clergy, requiring priests to break the confidentiality of confession.

The proceedings will take place in absolute secrecy, with the prelates largely sequestered from the outside world for as long as the conclave lasts until a new Supreme Pontiff is chosen.

The Mass ends with being sent out,” the archbishop told EWTN News before the Mass began at St. John the Evangelist Catholic ... to the Church,” he told EWTN News. The University of Alabama ...

With both the US and the Catholic Church deeply divided ... Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio. The new pope used phrases favoured ...

Pope Leo XIV gave his first homily at a Mass on Friday, one day after he was selected by a conclave of cardinals at the Vatican to lead the Catholic Church. The first U.S. pope in history said he ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinals returned to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting for a new pope after the first conclave ballot failed to find a winner, sending billowing black smoke through ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke was pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church.

The cardinal electors of the Catholic Church elected an American on Thursday ... white smoke emerged from the chimney above the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, signaling that a new pope had been ...