A St. Joseph altar, decorated with symbolic foods, will be installed at the Israelite Divine Spiritual Church on Frenchmen ...

Wood’s earlier novels contain explicit social critiques, but 'Stone Yard Devotional' does its intellectual heavy lifting at ...

Cardinal Robert McElroy emphasized the importance of Christian hope, mercy, and respecting human dignity in a homily in the ...

Mercy and compassion must be our first impulse when confronted with sin and human failure,' said the cardinal, who will fill ...

This week, across the New Orleans area, descendants of Sicilian immigrants will lay out elaborate altars laden with food and ...

If you've ever wanted to own a piece of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, now is your chance! In an effort to raise funds to ...

In garden shops and online stores, shoppers can find religious statues to suit any preference or budget. Some are ornate. Some are simple. Some are made of stone. Some are made of plastic. So why do ...

open image in gallery The key to understanding the significance of both the phallic-shaped stone and the Altar Stone is that they are both located on what was probably Stonehenge’s most sacred axis.

Lapsed as my own faith may be, my Catholic upbringing has forever shaped ... (As a consolation prize, I later became an altar boy). All of which is to say that Incenso, a new eau du parfum by ...

A historic Vatican II altar that had been dismantled at the ... totaling $9,500. He told National Catholic Reporter that parishioners had been told that the dismantling was the result of "a ...

Now, researchers have traced a path back in time to the world’s oldest recorded rune stone — and it’s full of secrets. Archaeologists unearthed a large, carved stone in an ancient cremation ...

And there are no specific norms outlining what happens to the leadership of the Catholic Church if a pope ... a special prayer for Francis from the altar before delivering the homily the pope ...