The heraldic design of Leo’s papal coat of arms features a fleur-de-lis on a blue background, symbolizing the Virgin Mary, ...

The worst fires in modern Israeli history erupted just as our people sought to celebrate our hard-won independence.

The motto that Francis selected for his papacy, ‘looking at him with mercy, he chose him,’ was inspired by Caravaggio’s ...

Ross Douthat, a Times Opinion columnist, hosted an online conversation with Michael Brendan Dougherty, a senior writer at ...

Life is what happens while you’re trying not to get hit on the head by a Soviet spaceship. For as long as I can remember, ...

The booklet claims that this is true, since the Church is the beast of Revelation (Rev 17 ... Secondly, the Holy Spirit descended upon the Church on Pentecost Sunday (Acts 2:1ff).

Instead of imaging God through a loving self-sacrifice on the holy and blessed seventh day, he images the beasts of the sixth day, which are not made in the image of God. In desiring to be like ...

But for those that do, the new moniker is a symbol of their new stage in life, their entry into a new community and their new way of serving God and other people. A new pope may take the name of a ...

Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is quite obviously a sham.  It does not produce anything of real economic value.  Like the derivatives that led to the 2008 financial crash, the economic value ...

Preaching in the Sistine Chapel on May 9 to the cardinals who elected him, the first pope born in the United States opened ...