Friday, February 14, is Valentine’s Day, which we celebrate as a day of ‘love.’ Valentine’s Day is named after a Christian ...

Saddleback Church founder and bestselling author Rick Warren apologized earlier this week after deleting an X post that prompted backlash for its political interpretation of the Crucifixion ...

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s classic rock musical gets a thrilling steampunk makeover that at times overwhelms the ...

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Nezzie Hardges holds her niece Amelia Kelley, 6, while they listen to Preston Love Jr. read from his children's book "Your ...

Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, hosted the meeting on the theme, ...

Not long ago, I was walking through the condiment section of the grocery store and I heard a little child having a hard time breathing. Since asthma also affects my lungs, I immediately felt tightness ...

The “Corpus” statue of Christ on the cross was stolen from the St. Theresa’s Roman Catholic Cemetery in the 2800-block of ...

Fixing a wheel to his cross, he visited Pope John Paul II at the Vatican, Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and ...

The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on the Thursday before Easter Sunday. This year, Ash Wednesday and the ...

The Bible says, in the beginning the Earth was wild and empty. In Hebrew it is called Tohuwabohu, utter chaos. So God turned ...

Jesus told him, he recounted on his website ... bomb in Northern Ireland — all while carrying his cross. He is listed in Guinness World Records for the “longest ongoing pilgrimage.” ...