Appearing for a few minutes in St. Peter’s Basilica before the Easter Vigil April 19, the convalescing pope recalled, in his ...

The US vice president brandishes his Catholicism as a banner, making his faith a component of the cultural war launched by ...

If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away that person's share in the tree of life and in the holy city ... like Ambrose and Augustine favored the ...

where in the prayers of the priest poured forth to the Lord God at his altar the commendation of the dead has its place." St. Augustine of Hippo, "The Care to be Had for the Dead" c.

On December 17, 2010, a young, demoralized man staggered angrily into a local government office in central Tunisia. He doused himself in paint thinner and lit a match. Incensed by Ben Ali’s ...

Profession of faith of Pope Vigilius I (552): DS 415.] for there is only one God, the almighty Father, his only Son and the Holy Spirit: the Most Holy Trinity." 234. "The mystery of the Most Holy ...

You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.” But that rest is not easily won.

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

In a recent article, a computer engineer presents the unconventional argument that the true location of the biblical Garden ...

The faithful in Pope Francis’ hometown lit candles in the church where he found God as a teenager. They packed the cathedral ...

The ancient Greek city of Thebes played a central role in Greek history, appearing in many of the legends of Greek mythology.