At the Protestant Revolution, rood screens were demolished and altar rails became the boundary markers between the nave and the sanctuary. Catholic practice followed. That the altar rails also served ...

Many sites associated with past popes have become museums or holy destinations for the faithful. But Pope Leo XIV’s childhood church closed years ago.

Young people on these campuses say they desire to encounter the faith and to evangelize through beauty and in accordance with ...

I reliably established that Saint Vukašin Mandrapa — the Jasenovac and Herzegovinian martyr — is in fact a fictional, or more precisely, ...

For a century, Hamtramck was known as "Little Poland." Then Muslim immigrants poured into town, changing everything.

Sport is religion in Chicago. The biggest question locals had here once Cardinal Robert Prevost became the new pope was which baseball team he supported.

Congregants of St. Paul’s-San Pablo Lutheran Church ... the altar table and Easter lilies were moved to make room for seven acupuncture chairs, arranged in a circle facing the central cross.

The Archbishop of Calabar and President of the Cross River State Christian Leaders Forum, Archbishop Josef Bassey, has ...

A team of archaeologists claims to have located the exact site where, according to Christian tradition, Jesus performed his ...

Archaeologists uncovered evidence at Khirbet Qana that may identify it as the true site of Jesus’ first miracle.

dictated by church law. Each cardinal writes his choice on a piece of paper inscribed with the words “Eligo in summen pontificem” — “I elect as supreme pontiff.” They approach the altar ...