COMMENTARY: Liturgical vestments like copes, chasubles and dalmatics are part of the beauty of the liturgy, alongside church ...

Worshippers in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre surround the restored ... London-based Simon Norfolk specializes in photographing architecture and landscapes. This story appears in ...

Some 50,000 people visit St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City daily. The 500-year-old structure, with its 448-foot-high dome, ...

A 700-year-old fresco discovered in the convent church of S. Antonio in Polesine in Ferrara, Italy, reveals that luxurious ...

A Catholic church has recently been built ... “The emotion I feel is similar to what I experienced in Jerusalem, at the Holy Sepulchre: this is truly where it happened!” ...

Healed on the forecourt of the Holy Sepulchre, he stays in Jerusalem earning ... The Saint Porphyre church, built in the 5th century, is the oldest church still in operation in the Gaza Strip.

Except for the resurrection on Easter, Holy Thursday is possibly one of the most important, complex, and profound days of celebration in the Catholic Church. Holy Thursday celebrates the ...

Ringing the handheld Sanctus bells during the consecration and elevation of the Host and chalice at Mass is a familiar sound ...

A tragic accident occurred in the Brazilian city of Salvador. The ceiling of the Church of St. Francis of Assisi collapsed.

What the Catechism of the Catholic Church says on "The Trinity:" 232. "Christians are baptized 'in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit' [Mt 28:19.] Before receiving the ...

For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul ...

A teacher at Drakensburg Secondary School in South Africa is under investigation for allegedly cutting off a Hindu student's religious thread. The South African Hindu Maha Sabha has condemned the ...