The general belief was that you should leave the statue outside under a bush the night before the wedding to ensure good weather ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Catholic priests will now be able to celebrate Mass “for the care of creation” after the Vatican ...

Priests can now celebrate Mass "for the care of creation" after the Vatican announced that a new formulary of prayers and ...

The Mass, along with other steps, show Pope Leo XIV and the Roman Catholic Church building on the environmental commitment of ...

Catholic priests will now be able to celebrate Mass “for the care of creation” after the Vatican announced that a new formulary of prayers and biblical readings for the Mass will be added to the Roman ...

A new rite published by the Vatican on Thursday will allow priests to celebrate a Mass to exhort Catholics to exercise care ...

Ancient Rome was a rigidly hierarchical society where the ruling elite stigmatized everyone who had to work with their hands. Yet Roman workers still found ways to resist exploitation through strikes ...

Washington Auxiliary Bishop Roy E. Campbell Jr. ordained nine new permanent deacons for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of ...

A gruesome but fascinating discovery in an ancient cemetery near York has brought fresh light to the brutal world of Roman ...

Why is there a Jewish practice to bury prayer books and other texts that contain God's name? A rabbi offers the mystical ...

From Grenfell Tower to ancient Mediterranean cities, we're still creating gods and shrines in unexpected places.

"We are not exilies anymore." A small group of Jews conducts a symbolic ceremony to reverse the implications of one of the ...