This week’s word: In just a few days I will be serving as thurifer at the Great Vigil of Easter in my parish. Thank you for dropping by, and come again next week. Oh, all right, all right ...

From a censer swung by a thurifer, the sweet smoke of incense coiled heavily into the church. In a chasuble of blue and gold, the church’s Pastor Arthur Carl Piepkorn stood at the epistle side ...

A regional French auction house just made €3.5 million ($4 million) on a religious panel recently attributed to the Northern Renaissance painter Bernhard Strigel. The single-lot sale on Friday ...