In record-breaking numbers, more than 17,800 catechumens will be baptized during the Easter Vigil on April 19, including 10,384 adults and more than 7,400 young people ages 11 to 17, according to an ...

VATICAN CITY — The 70th anniversary of the death on April 10 of Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the controversial French ...

We spent four amazing days in Paris during our trip to Europe last year. Paris is an iconic city home to some of the most ...

The Lake Forest women F. Scott Fitzgerald met when they were teenagers and whose inspiration were used as characters in “The Great Gatsby” had full lives. Here’s what we found ...

The local bishop employed Calvin’s father as an administrator in the town’s cathedral ... year Calvin fled Paris because of contacts with individuals who through lectures and writings opposed the ...

The photo, taken in Kyiv in December 2018 on the sidelines of a “reunification council” that painfully ratified the creation of an independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine, is revealing.

Retired bishop René Dupont arrived soon after the Korean War and attended to thousands displaced by the conflict ...

The second, and even more significant, move toward reverence was turning ad orientem, that is, the priest at the altar facing ...

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned abortion — the direct and purposeful taking of the life of the unborn child. In principle, Catholic Christians believe that all life is ...

This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic and Greek word for Egyptian. Before the Moslem invasion in 641 the Copts fell into heresy due to their rejection of the ...

From romantic retreats in the Mediterranean to fresh-air-filled Alpine hikes, these are the most exciting areas of Europe to ...