The cumulative weight of the Gospels leans in the direction of empathy for and solidarity with whoever is most in need of ...

Coming up in less than a month is Pentecost Sunday. June 8, to be exact. This is the day when some in the Christian community celebrate the coming of the ...

Pope Leo XIV has announced his motto and coat of arms – a long-held tradition for those in the ranks of bishops, cardinals ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering ...

Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — ...

Pope Leo XIV has announced his motto and coat of arms – a long-held tradition for those in the ranks of bishops, cardinals ...

The choice of symbols and words reflects ... The Trinity is the Christian concept that God is not a single person but three – Father, Son and Holy Spirit – united in a single divine and ...

1213 Holy Baptism is the basis of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the Spirit (vitae spiritualis ... the water of the sea is a symbol of death and so can represent the mystery ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pontiff, began his papacy with a richly-symbolic inaugural Mass, celebrated at the Vatican before a crowd of 150,00 people.

The former Cardinal Robert Prevost vowed to work for unity. “I think he will inspire,” said Susan Hanssen, a professor who ...

The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising ...