Ross Douthat: The death of Pope Francis ends, or at least temporarily suspends, a tumultuous period in the life of the ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

Peruvian nun Alba Socola waited in line for almost five hours with thousands of other Catholics on Wednesday to enter St.

Thousands of people have begun filing through St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their final respects to Pope Francis at the start ...

The ancient Greeks considered Dionysus the 12th Olympic god. He was not taken seriously by his father Zeus nor by most of the ...

A federal judge rejected religious groups' request to block ICE at houses of worship, citing a lack of evidence of targeted enforcement. Senate Democratic leader Jason Pizzo switches party ...

The Easter Bunny is a much celebrated character in American Easter celebrations. On Easter Sunday, children look for hidden special treats, often chocolate Easter eggs, that the Easter Bunny might ...

finished the work. The significance of Jesus’ statement lies in a conversation he had with religious leaders about his role in God’s great plan: I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know ...

Jessica Harvey used to worship in a church with stained glass ... It’s simpler: “This is a place where we more easily meet God.” ...

If so, you could be one of a startling number of Britons suffering from a newly identified psychological condition: Celebrity Worship Syndrome (CWS). One in three people is so obsessed with ...

Second, the attitudes and feelings inherent in worship: “Feeling and expressing gratitude to God is, in fact, what infuses worship with a sense of joyful renewal as opposed to seeing it as just one ...

But if you ask me, the problem underlying them all is the loss of the sense of the sacred — and most especially in how Catholics worship ... that lift souls to God show us what is possible ...