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 ...

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

A man was apprehended by Vatican gendarmes after he vandalized the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica ... St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is the largest Catholic church in the world.

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 ...

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Germany's Catholic Church has sharply criticized a carnival float made for a big street parade in the western city of Cologne that linked Jesus with the church abuse scandal.

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 ...