Pope Francis will inaugurate the opening of the Holy Year 2025, a jubilee year for the universal church with the theme ...

A guide to some of our favorite handmade gifts to give and receive from religious communities and monasteries.

The consecration, involving holy water, chrism oil, incense and prayer, transforms the altar into a sacred centerpiece of the cathedral. That was the most moving moment of the day for Marie Capucine, ...

The great Sephardic poet Judah Halevy famously wrote “My heart is in the East,” proclaiming his longing for the Land of Israel. I have fulfilled Judah Halevy’s longing for “the East ...

Any one whose labors take him into the far reaches of the country, as ours lately have done, is bound to mark how the years have made the land grow fruitful. This is indeed a big country ...

After losing their territory over the course of decades to Western expansion and violence, the tribe went generations without collectively owned land. But in 2018, more than 150 years later ...

(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) VATICAN CITY (AP) — Roman Catholic faithful will be able to view St. Peter’s tomb remotely as part of the Vatican’s technological outreach with its far-flung flock during ...

We fear for the long-term survival of the indigenous Christian presence in the Holy Land that stretches back to the time when our Lord walked this land. This existential challenge demands our focused ...

Kyiv's hold on Kursk region cut to 800 square kilometres from 1,376 at start of incursion in August, General Staff source says Most of North Korean troops sent to Kursk region in support of Russia ...