In Greece, a beekeeper's decade-long practice of placing religious icons in hives has yielded a remarkable phenomenon. Bees ...

Challenge today is to extricate the historical, fully human Mary from theological baggage heaped upon her over centuries ...

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Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented Pope Leo XIV with a religious icon, painted on wood that had seen the ...

Pope Leo XIV holds his first general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, issuing an appeal for Gaza, which he calls ...

2) Perpetual Virginity The expression perpetual virginity, ever-virgin, or simply "Mary the Virgin" refers primarily to the conception and birth of Jesus ... "eschatological icon of the Church ...

Chapel of the Roman Basilica of Saint Mary Major. And each time before he sets off on a foreign trip, and then when he returns, he goes back to that icon. Depicting the Virgin with Infant Jesus ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first pope to come from the Order of St. Augustine, made a visit very early in his pontificate to the Shrine of the Mother of Good Counsel in Italy.

Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio. He’s the blockbuster artist ...

The Texas House of Representatives has advanced a plan to erect an 8-foot pro-life statue on the Capitol grounds. It is the ...

The holy icon of Panagia Soumela, located in the homonymous Holy Church in Vermio, northern Greece, is the symbol of Hellenism in Pontus.