This Sunday is a day of some significance in the world’s two dominant religions, Christianity and Islam. For Christians it is ...

From the 1200s to the 1700s, the custom of Christian tattooing was prevalent in Europe among peasants, seafarers, soldiers and artisans as much as among nuns and monks. They were getting crosses, ...

When Christianity became state-sponsored under leaders such as Constantine and Theodosius, governments systematically ...

where he met and befriended St. Gregory of Nazianzus (one of the four great Greek Doctors of the Church). He became the secretary of Pope Damasus, who commissioned the Vulgate from him ...

Every year before Easter Sunday, Christians worldwide engage in a time of solemn contemplation known as Lent. Lent is a ...

The new shepherd of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati April 3 tied a story of learning to swim as a boy, "attempting to float but ...

Then there was Gregory the Great, it was during his term that the word ‘pope’ was almost exclusively applied to the Roman bishop and he believed the pope had supreme authority throughout the world.

Bishop Gregory Parkes of the Diocese of St. Petersburg described meeting the pope, whom he describes as ... and to prepare ourselves to celebrate the great joy of Easter," said Parkes.

[St. Gregory the Great, Dial. 4, 39: PL 77, 396; cf. Mt 12:32-36.]" 1472. "To understand this doctrine and practice of the Church, it is necessary to understand that sin has a double consequence.

Prevost is one of 137 special bishops able to vote to elect a new pope. And Cardinal Wilton Gregory, 77, the socially progressive archbishop of Washington, D.C., until retiring in January ...

Chicago-born Wilton Gregory was appointed the first African American cardinal in 2020 by Pope Francis. Until his January retirement, Cardinal Gregory was archbishop of Washington, D.C. Gregory ...