Such was their influence in Church history, through their evangelization efforts, that Pope John Paul II named the two ...

Lichens also celebrates “catacomb saints” — katakombenheiligen ... and remains of the strange occurrences of Catholic history, the book is a guide not only to the strange but to moments ...

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 ...

Here’s a look at Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s life. Personal Birth date: April 16, 1927 Death date: December 31, 2022 Birth place: Marktl am Inn, Germany Birth name: Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger Father: ...

Meet Connecticut pastor Father Kevin Reilly, a burly disciplinarian who is drawing young Catholic parents back ... s when Reilly decided to crack open a book about the Blessed Mother given to ...

Suspicions are further fueled when Catholic books only present the general form ... The images of Christ and of the Virgin Mother of God, and of the saints are to be had and retained particularly ...

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the ...

Bearing cards, flowers, chocolates and poetry, lovers have always swooned on Valentine’s Day as cherubs circled overhead. Right?

For example, most people will be familiar with an Egyptian ritual from "The Book of the Dead" of Isis breathing life into the mummified corpse, but many may not know that the same scene is ...

A. There are three kinds or classes of relics: 1.(1) The body or part of the body of a saint; 2.(2) Articles, such as clothing or books, used by the saint; 3.(3) Articles that have touched a relic ...

The beloved blessing of the throats on the feast of St. Blaise has outlasted empires, plagues and revolutions — proving that ...