The early church believed that after his death Christ descended into hell in order to rescue the souls of the righteous.

Easter, a movable feast, falls on April 20 in 2025, blending religious significance with spring traditions. Rooted in the ...

The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more ...

Eastern and Western churches will celebrate Easter on the same day this year, while marking 1,700 years since the Council of ...

Unable to attend the Good Friday ceremony in person for the third consecutive year, the pope offered deep meditations for the ...

From the location of the “place of skulls” to ancient Jewish burial rites, here’s what archaeologists do—and don’t—know about ...

Black Catholics in America have ties back to colonial times and are actively campaigning for a Black Catholic saint.

In recent decades, some Christians have moved away from the theory of penal substitutionary atonement, which summons up the ...

So, what exactly is Easter all about? Where did it come from, and how has it stayed so meaningful through the centuries? From ...

Archaeologists have deciphered ancient inscriptions at the site traditionally believed to be where Jesus held the Last Supper ...

In the U.S. capital, hundreds of Ethiopians dressed in white tunics gather at the DSK Mariam Church to chant and pray in an ...

Jacob Derry, a Pontifical North American College student and seminarian for the Diocese of Lansing, Michigan, helped organize ...