When Anne Marie Becraft established her school in the midst of the nation’s and the church’s slaveholding elite, she powerfully declared that the lives of black people, especially women and girls, mattered.

How a tiny U.S. Post Office in Ossining, N.Y., became the site of a caper for the ages.

One of Audrey Hepburn’s most compelling films—1959’s “The Nun’s Story,” directed by Fred Zinnemann—is also one of her most overlooked.

Saint Vincent’s made a habit of serving people on the margins.

In 2013, religious groups and houses of worship were granted a religious exemption by the Supreme Court from the government's mandate in the Affordable Care Act to include coverage of contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs in their employee health plan.

The disaster killed an estimated 220,000 people, injured more than 300,000 and left 1.5 million homeless.