The growing number of cardinals from Africa eligible to vote in the upcoming papal election, along with a rising number of Catholics on the continent, signals promise for those hoping for an African ...

With the warm weather returning to Northeast Ohio, so are the hummingbirds for the season. Ruby-throated hummingbirds are ...

Heavy is the white mitre worn by the pope. Whoever emerges from the coming conclave as the new leader of the 1.4-billion-member Catholic Church will face a myriad of problems. Among the pressing ...

Admirers of Morris the revolutionary have shared his uncertainties. George Bernard Shaw thought Morris’s late-life addiction to scribbling prose romances a lowering hobby – why not take up making ...

Who are the Jesuits and what is their philosophical link with St Francis of Assisi, the Catholic friar, for whom the Cardinal Jorge ... Francis would subsequently pattern his own life against ...

Deep in West Virginia sits a gorge that draws people from around the world. New River Gorge mixes wild rapids with ...

The Thornton Gap Entrance (Mile 31.5) via Route 211 near Luray offers a central access point that’s ideal if you’re coming from the Shenandoah Valley or want to focus on the park’s middle section, ...

Ski touring in Kyrgyzstan’s Tien Shan range: deep snow, yurts, huskies, horses and off-grid adventure beyond the Alps.

A shared shape rule, the power cascade, governs most bird beak growth. It links modern birds with extinct dinosaurs.

A new study by researchers from The University of Western Australia has used computer vision to reconstruct the false ...

"Pope Francis truly shared the anxieties, sufferings and hopes of this time of globalization," Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re ...

According to the Cornell Lab or Ornithology, there are four general wing shapes that allow birds to do specific things, such ...