On Jan. 27, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops announced that Our Lady of Martyrs Shrine in Auriesville, has been designated as a national shrine for pilgrims by the ...

Extreme religious traditions of the 5th century AD held males in higher positions and associated them with asceticism. Open ...

The persecution began on 23 February 303. It was the feast of Terminus, the god of boundaries – chosen, Lactantius says, ‘so ...

When Bishop Mariann Budde closed her sermon at the National Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral on January 21 she ...

Good St. Valentine was associated with Rome, but the bad old Roman empire Rome of martyrs and evil emperors ... doesn't always have to be 'exciting,' nor should it be For Western Christianity, there’s ...

Every year on February 14th, a lot of people exchange their particular Valentine with cards, candies, presents, or flowers .

Father Michael said Saint Valentine was one, very real person– or at least the man that the church honored with a feast was no legend. He said he did not know of the secret marriage ceremonies, but ...

According to one legend, Pope Gelasius wanted to put an end to the debauchery in the late fifth century. He declared Feb. 14 ...

Christianity has deep-roots in both Palestine and Armenia, home to some of the world’s oldest Christian communities. Jesus ...

If this track record is any indication, Trump’s new “task force” won’t make Christians or anyone else safer or freer. Instead ...

In this regard, Stockman hopes the creation of a space for dialogue like this will succeed in forging fruitful bridges of ...

The solution they came up with is famously stated in the Declaration of Independence: “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” This revolutionary truth, combining human reason and divine revelation, ...