For centuries, Christian communities took candles that they would use in the coming months to their church to be blessed as symbols of Jesus, light of the world — to mark both this festival and, in ...

CHRISTIAN Women in the country have been challenged to use their God-given status as humane and tolerant beings to build a ...

Artemisia Gentileschi painted Mary Magdalene in a sudden swoon — a tradition of matching physical beauty to spiritual elevation.

As Conclave features heavily in the awards season – 12 nominations in the Baftas, and more expected in the Oscar line-up as ...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Father Frank Mann opened and closed the prayers of invocation and benediction at the inauguration of the new presidential administration.

His name had a second coming. Scientists say that the name of Christianity’s central figure wasn’t originally Jesus Christ — ...

The Princess of Wales, 43, is likely to make a show-stopping appearance at the Bafta awards next month - with the ceremony ...

Elizabeth Tabish is sharing the personal connection she felt to her latest movie, BETWEEN BORDERS. “In a crumbling Soviet ...

In the Marian prayer of St. Thomas, which is always God-centered and in relation to Christ, we find an emphasis on petition, as well as emphases on contemplation, and even mysticism. This brief paper ...

And so today we pray that we may proclaim Christ as our living Lord and one day see him in Glory (opening prayer), and that we be filled "with the same faithful love that kept Mary Magdalene close to ...

Mary Magdalen in Meditation (c.1620s pictured above), by the Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi, sold for £1,400,000 at ...