Antoni Porowski, Rachel Kushner, Michelle Zauner and others on their most memorable driving vacations, from coastal Maine to ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, vowed on Sunday to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a sign of peace ...

A lard-covered obelisk is more than a slippery slope for U.S. Naval Academy plebes, who view it as a rite of passage that changes them into midshipmen.

There’s nothing like a days-long drive across the country. When I’m abroad and having business meetings, the conversation inevitably turns to the subject of dream vacations: Ethiopia, I say; Mongolia; ...

Invoking the help of the Holy Spirit and recognizing that millions of people all over the world were praying for them, 133 ...

They had opened the conclave Wednesday afternoon, participating in a rite more theatrical than even ... (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) Cardinals, with white mitre hats, attend a final Mass inside ...

The Latin-rite cardinals were dressed in red cassocks ... the three-cornered red hat they received when they were made cardinals. The cardinal electors began their walk to the Sistine Chapel ...

Just one year later, Francis gave him a red cardinal’s hat — a move seen as a clear endorsement of ... Ouellet defended priestly celibacy for the Latin Rite church and upheld the ban on women’s ...