A Jesuit priest discusses how Christian tattooing started shortly after Jesus’ crucifixion and spread across Europe in later ...

EXCLUSIVE: Sony ‘s Affirm Films has dated Soul on Fire, its new film inspired by the life of inspirational speaker John O’Leary, for release in theaters nationwide October 10.

You'd be wrong to think the ancient Greek gods bled red like you and me, as ichor was the substance that defined their ...

COMMENTARY: The third of Christ’s ‘Seven Last Words From the Cross’ reveals the feminine and maternal dimension of the mystery of salvation.

This year is not only the 1,700th anniversary of the first ecumenical council of the church, but also one of the years when Catholic and Orthodox Easter celebrations coincide — an occasion to reflect ...

A Jerusalem Voice for Justice released a statement expressing solidarity with the Palestinians suffering in Gaza and the West ...

The Spanish word for Easter is Pascua. In Italian, it’s Pasqua. French speakers have Pâques. All of these words derive from ...

Cecrops, Athens’ first king, banned bloody sacrifices and reformed worship with laws, morality, and symbolic offerings.

For more than 20 years, Father Raymond de Souza has preached the “Seven Last Words” devotion, a traditional meditation on the seven times Jesus speaks from the cross on Good Friday. Made famous in ...

Archaeologists found another example of a crucified heel 49 years later in Cambridgeshire, England, in a grave in an ancient ...

The discovery by two disciples of the empty tomb, and Mary Magdelene's encounter with Jesus, in John 20.1–18, is one of the ...