At the Protestant Revolution, rood screens were demolished and altar rails became the boundary markers between the nave and the sanctuary. Catholic practice followed. That the altar rails also served ...

On "Preach," Anthony SooHoo, S.J., draws on unexpected images from Celtic Christianity in his homily for Pentecost, Year C.

The Rule of St. Augustine offered monks a firm structure for their daily lives of work and prayer, even before the mendicant ...

the Lord's question echoes through the ages, as a loving invitation to discover ... deeply as a sign of adoration of the Lord. 'The Catholic Church has always offered and still offers to the ...

2 Peter 3:16 Ever since the Protestant Revolt in the 16th century, the Catholic ... during the Middle Ages so that people could not take them home to read. Supposedly the Church during the Middle ...

1."The bride wanted her cat at the wedding, and the groom and his best man brought the uncaged cat in the car and went ...

Artemius, Candida, and Paulina in front of Saints Marcellinus and Peter, Illuminated illustration from the Speculum Maius, by ...

When someone accepts election as pontiff, there undergoes a change in that individual, not only in life purpose in leading ...

James Talbot, a former Catholic priest convicted of sexually assaulting boys in Maine and Massachusetts after he was exposed ...

A Cambridge criminologist has uncovered new evidence in the killing of a priest, John Forde, who had his throat cut on a busy ...

It is not important to be perfect, but it is necessary to be credible,” the pope said in his homily at the Mass in St.

The Catholic Diocese of Richmond ... abused as a child by William Reinecke, a priest named by the diocese in February, said she has lobbied the church to include information about the number ...