So, it has risen. Mel Gibson will, indeed, be making a sequel to his most notorious film, The Passion of the Christ, this ...

1 Corinthians 10:16 As Christians we are saved (i.e. prepared for heaven) through faith by grace - the free gift of God's life earned by Jesus Christ ... Christ as high priest after the order ...

“This moment is critical now,” Bishop Sean W. Rowe, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, said. “For those of us who ...

On this episode of “Interesting Times,” Ross Douthat is joined by the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest and the editor of ...

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and lesbian faithful. Some wished he’d gone further.

How I would like a Church that is poor and for the poor,” Pope Francis said shortly after becoming the leader of 1-billion-plus Catholics worldwide in 2013. This assertion ...

Pope Francis famously exhorted young Catholics to "shake things up" by taking the gospel to "favelas, slums and shantytowns.

The papacy of Pope Francis ended with the same core doctrine for LGBTQ+ people that he inherited: The Catholic Church still ...

Claire Hoffman's superb biography traces the life of Aimee Semple McPherson, a star preacher whose legacy lives on in L.A.

Just 10 days after Pope Francis was appointed head of the Catholic Church, he received an ominous gift from his predecessor — ...

There's a site close to our restaurants, so whenever I'm craving ... One of the estate agents listing the island, which is cut off at high tide, said there had already been considerable interest.

Each year on Aug. 5 the church liturgical calendar commemorates the dedication of St. Mary Major (in Italian, Santa Maria Maggiore), one of the five great ancient basilicas in Rome, and ...