To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...

Since 1914, white smoke has indicated the election of a new pope. A stereotypical association of the colour of the smoke – white (positive) and black (negative) – lies behind the use of the two ...

A surge of people converting to Orthodox Christianity is helping local parishes here buck the national trend of declining ...

A last-minute phone call to the mayor meant that a 200-person Eucharistic procession, led by the Rev. Father Boniface Hicks, ...

Leo, the first American and second Latin American pope, celebrated his inaugural Mass at the Vatican after waving to the ...

Incense (from the Latin incendere ... Sacramental Theology and Director of the ACU Centre for Liturgy, Australian Catholic University ...

For nearly 800 years the Catholic Church has utilised the process ... Catholics utilise smoke in many rituals in the form of incense. Incense (from the Latin incendere, meaning “to burn ...

For nearly 800 years the Catholic Church has utilised the process of the conclave ... Catholics utilise smoke in many rituals in the form of incense. Incense (from the Latin incendere, meaning “to ...