As a way to tamp down support for the new Christian movement, King Herod arrests Saint Peter, this Sunday’s reading from Acts of the Apostles tells us. Since taking power from the Muslim Brotherhood in a military coup last year, the Egyptian government . . .

“Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” Jesus asks his disciples in this Sunday’s gospel. The answers reveal a lot about how he was viewed by those around him. A lot of credibility is riding on your name, according to a new study that suggests people are . . .

An angel of God intervenes to free Saint Peter from prison in this Sunday’s first reading. An appeals court has intervened to free a Sudanese woman who had been sentenced to death for apostasy . . .

Jesus calls Saint Peter the rock upon which the church will be built and grants him a high level of authority with the promise that “whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” The U.S. Supreme . . .

“The church is not a community of the perfect but a community of sinners, obliged to recognize their need for God’s love, their need to be purified through the cross of Jesus Christ.”

Only 28 percent of Americans are fans of professional soccer, down from 31 percent in 1994. Forty-nine percent think the sport is boring.