The traditional foot-washing ceremony reenacts the way Jesus washed the feet of his 12 apostles during the Last Supper, and the Church has long said women can’t participate because the apostles ...

Still, to put the church’s 75,000 acre-feet into context, the Great Salt Lake needs about 2 million acre-feet flowing to it annually to maintain a sustainable elevation.

On his first Easter after becoming pope in 2013, Francis washed the feet of women and Muslims at a juvenile detention center in Rome. While he has disappointed liberals within the church with his ...

Church teaching holds that only men should be ordained because Christ's apostles were male. "This is about the ordination of women, not about their feet," wrote the Rev. John Zuhlsdorf, a ...

The church may be willing to forgive the vandal who hacked the hands and feet off three statues of Jesus, Mary and St. John outside Our Lady of the Lake Church, but not the Verona police.

High on a remote mountain in Romania, priests have blessed a church made entirely from ice, outstanding both for its architectural style as well as being a place for religious tolerance.

The Civil War-era church was moved 80 feet to the south Thursday, kicking off construction of Lesley University’s new $46 million arts center.