On Mothering Sunday, we can remember the famous mothers of the Bible. Many of these mothers played an important role not only ...

In March 1524, the humanist Pietro Summonte wrote to his friend Marcantonio Michiel that in Naples, in the church of San ... of the painting depicts the Heavenly Jerusalem, illuminated by the ...

View of the main entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Old City of Jerusalem. (photo credit: Framalicious. Via Shutterstock) An excavation at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in ...

How Christianity blurred the line between celibacy and androgyny.

In the liturgical calendar of the church, St. Joseph is among the few ... The carpenter from Nazareth, called to be "the earthly shadow of the heavenly Father" (Patris Corde), typifies what ...

No place evokes the depth of human evil more than Auschwitz. Theologians – at a safe distance – can investigate the question ...

We have mothers and fathers and a Creator in heaven, but not (yet) a heavenly ... the church” (Eph. 5:32). The gifts of the bridegroom range far beyond this meager list. Cyril of Jerusalem ...

As the Christian calendar moves closer to our Easter celebration, this Sunday we sing our hosannas to the King during our ...

Renlund’s comments about ordination in the faith’s all-male priesthood echoed a similar warning he issued three years ago regarding the church’s belief in Heavenly Mother. “I wish we knew ...

So, he sent trusted representatives to request missionaries and to witness the Divine Liturgy celebrated in the beautiful Church ... heavenly liturgy which is celebrated in the holy city of ...