From glow-in-the-dark rosary beads to St. Christopher dashboard statues and Pope Francis bobbleheads, a tribute to the complicated life of Catholic kitsch ...

Historically speaking, there are multiple saints named Valentine or Valentinus - all of whom were martyred. The saint we're ...

About 400 people, including Spokane’s bishop, were praying a novena to Our Lady when a disturbed man charged the altar.

The Church’s canon law is strict ... for Use of Low-Gluten Bread” in which the prelate noted that while altar bread “quibus glutinum ablatum est,” or “with the gluten removed ...

Theatre Royal Bath’s revival is deft, but this drama about suspicions of predatory behaviour in the priesthood doesn’t feel ...

The Reformation split the Church into Catholic and Protestant factions, creating two roads to salvation - both of which claimed to be true. So it was very important to people that the Scottish state ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

With their sparkling embroideries and colorful sashes flapping in the frigid wind, hundreds of Guatemalan faithful flocked to the Catholic church of this heartland farming town to celebrate their ...

Inside, there are 15 altars dedicated to the 15 mysteries ... by those who suspected the church of staging the miracles. Inside the modern chapel is a single white column over the site of a ...

Peter Straughan wasn’t exactly walking around with his cell phone in hand to hear if the movie academy was going to acknowledge him for adapting Conclave in Thursday’s Oscar nominations. With the film ...

This midcentury-modern design by Eero Saarinen brings ... near the edge of a conflict zone, a newly built Catholic church offers hope and sanctuary to refugees in nearby camps.

Rome and its doctrines, it seemed, were not always up-to-date with the needs of a nation heading at high speed for the modern ... of the Catholic Church. For the men who "cleansed the altars ...