Then-Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory leads a special liturgy in renewing the consecration of the U.S. to the care of ...

In his company debut, the director Claus Guth takes a psychological approach, surrounding the title character with six ...

Pope Francis had a special devotion to the Marian icon, Salus Populi Romani (Salvation or Health of the Roman People), which ...

The Hagia Sophia mosaics are unique and represent the ultimate example of Byzantine craftsmanship. They are the only surviving examples of Byzantine mosaics from such a lengthy time period. They cover ...

A History of Sex and Christianity —the kind of hefty tome inevitably described as “magisterial” by reviewers—teems with ...

Pope Francis has broken with tradition when it comes to where he is laid to rest – choosing a light-filled basilica instead of the grottoes of the Vatican.

ROME — Pope Francis will be the first pontiff in more than a century to be buried outside the Vatican Grottoes. After his ...

AFAR’s partner, Context Travels offers visitors a private, historian- or architect-led introduction to downtown Mexico City from its roots as a center of government and ritual in the Aztec Empire to ...

And compassion is something that we’re supposed to think about a lot, in our daily lives. There are relationships between her and the Virgin Mary, in her iconography. The religions are all influencing ...

The Armenian Apostolic Church celebrates one of its greatest feasts – the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary – on April 7, Qahana.am reports. In the Gospel of Luke we learn that the Angel Gabriel ...

Located in Waterloo’s desirable Mary Allen neighbourhood ... renovated to combine its original character with a stylish, contemporary design. Mark Bryson is a Kitchener-based reporter for ...