In this combination photo Pope Francis walks past flowers as he celebrates Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican April 16, 2017, and Members of the Ukrainian community in Sacramento, Calif.

The countdown to the Orthodox Easter is set to begin on March 3, when Greece celebrates “Kathara Deftera,” Greek for “Clean ...

The Mass schedule at St. Charles Catholic Church, 31 Cherry Hill St., is as follows: Wednesday through Friday at 9 a.m., ...

As a minister and theologian, one aspect of the chat troubled me most of all: the overt religiosity with which Vance baptized ...

An Illinois law may force religious employers to hire people who take actions that contradict their sincerely held religious ...

Though largely used as fodder for internet “gotchas” the scuffle pointed to a wider trend — one that could remake the country ...

The imposition of hands is rightly recognized by the Catholic tradition ... 101 1291 A custom of the Roman Church facilitated the development of the Western practice: a double anointing with ...

There are an estimated 2,000 churches in New York, with dozens designated as cathedrals. Churches and cathedrals are classic ...

It was exposed in the church of San Matteo in the famous Roman street of Via Merulana ... bluish purple became the color of penance in the Western Church (during Lent and Advent) because purple ...

The major world religions emerged between approximately 600 BCE and 611 CE, with Judaism being the first, followed by Christianity and concluding with Islam, ...

Now, the first thing to say about liberalism is that it arose in Europe, specifically in Western ... church whose interests were not synonymous or often really compatible with the interests of the ...