I believe too that when the priest offers Mass at the altar, and says the solemn words ... our prayers here on earth can now rise like incense to mingle with the prayers of the saints.

The Church - stripped of its ornaments, the altar bare, and with the door of the empty tabernacle standing open - is as if in mourning. In the fourth century the Apostolic Constitutions described ...

A man has caused minor damage at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after jumping onto the main altar and knocking over 19th-century candelabra, worth several thousand dollars. Video posted on ...

HONG KONG – Geneticist Zhang Huarong walks through a forest near his Hong Kong research lab, gesturing towards a rotting stump of an incense tree that is one of over a dozen illegally felled for ...

A man jumped onto the main altar of St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican on Friday, damaging six candelabra worth around €30,000, according to reports. Footage shared by Catholic Arena on X shows the ...