The tradition of icon painting began to develop simultaneously with the development of Christianity. In the modern era, avant ...

In a Moscow suburb, locals have been battling against city officials and the Russian Orthodox Church to stop construction of a new church in a city park. This construction project is part of a plan to ...

Mayor Kahlil Seren took five days to respond to claims that his wife made antisemitic comments about Jewish city officials ...

After a bitter loss to President Donald Trump, former Vice President Kamala Harris is thinking hard about her next job. The ...

Before the Israel-Hamas conflict broke out in 2023, this writer was blessed to join a Holy Land pilgrimage in Israel. One of the highlights of the visit ...

One of the highlights of my genealogical journey has been the great privilege I have had to spend two decades corresponding ...

Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration ceremony took place in Vatican City earlier today. Many were in attendance, and as tradition goes — when a person is in the presence of a pope, they dress in black, except ...

Robert Prevost, a native of Chicago, is a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s office of bishops.

Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new pontiff has been chosen after the second or third ballots.

Using smoke to communicate to the public whether a new pope has been elected is somewhat a recent tradition for the Catholic Church ... of the smoke — white (positive) and black (negative ...

It touched a real nerve because it contradicted the American Christian narrative, which really was white ... Shrine of the Black Madonna of the Pan-African Orthodox Christian Church — had ...

Michael Lambakis, dressed in a black ... white spaces there. He has been working from a studio at the Holy Archangels Greek Orthodox Monastery near San Antonio. "My iconography is the work of the ...