Now it's time for a regular segment Words You'll Hear. That's where we try to understand stories in the news by parsing some of the words associated with them. Today's word is schism. We expect to ...

It’s weird to think that we still have two popes alive in the Catholic Church. I wonder if soon we will find ourselves with two presidents. Pope Benedict XVI retired under mysterious circumstances in ...

Pope Gregory XII, the last pope to resign from the Vatican, did so among a period of political turmoil in the church that rivaled the moral upheaval of the pedophile priest scandals of today. With his ...

The high-powered, bulletproof ZIS limousine sped along Belgrade’s narrow streets and broad avenues, between lines of poplars and policemen, lined up in front of the Great Hall of Topchider Park. Out ...

From their onsets, suffragists and abolitionists shared many of the same values, so what caused the movements to split apart? Susan B. Anthony (Wikimedia Commons) The reformer mind was accustomed to ...