Italian nun Sister Simona Brambilla is now the prefect of the department responsible for all the Catholic Church's religious ...

Pope Francis has made a historic appointment by naming Sister Simona Brambilla as the first woman to lead a major Vatican ...

Many Catholic parishes will give their parishioners a piece of chalk, a small bottle of holy water, and the words for the ...

Pilgrims who visit Rome during the Jubilee, a holy year celebrated every 25 years, will have the opportunity to receive a plenary indulgence by passing through the doors.

The smallness of God in the Eucharist and in the manger is a scandal. The all-powerful One becomes so small that he can be ...

When he opened the “Holy Door” to the Basilica of St. Peter on Christmas Eve, Pope Francis initiated the Holy Year 2025 — a ...

A current exhibition at the MET reveals a humanity that will shift people's perception of religious art — and with it their ...

In 2022, the book “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain was banned from many school districts because some found ...

Does your congregation have any special or unusual Advent or Christmas customs? Are there any that are characteristic of your ...

Explore art works, paint-smeared palettes, scribbled letters and more... Artists and architects have run the RA for 250 years. Our Collection is a record of them.

A Medieval silk bag the size of a clenched fist is revealing previously little-known links between Westminster Abbey and Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor. The bag, which remains in the ...