The history of the Catholic Church so far spans about 2,000 years. That’s a wide swath of history, a vast amount of time, and an organization that covers the entire world. The Church has been at the ...

An attempt to examine the church’s history through its architecture suffers from narrow understandings of “church” and “history” alike. My own church has a stone structure by a creek in Johnson City, ...

When attorney Roswell Field, famous for representing enslaved African American Dred Scott in a landmark case before the U.S. Supreme Court, moved into his house in downtown St. Louis in 1850, the area ...

Winston Churchill famously said, "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it." If the Catholic Church forgets history, it is simply doomed. Pope Francis recently issued a letter "On the Renewal ...

Pope Francis looks at a painted image of the Great Wall of China during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican May 1, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) The Pontifical ...

The Internet Archive is preserving the web one page at a time, a job that’s more critical than ever as the internet evolves in the age of AI.

On Friday morning, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced that women may now begin a full-time mission at ...

Trappist-Cistercian monks from the Abbey of Our Lady of New Clairvaux walk the vineyards on the abbey’s property in Vina, Calif. (Photo courtesy of New Clairvaux Vineyard) I cannot prove it, but I ...

(The Conversation) — With religious affiliation on the decline, continuing racism and increasing income inequality, some scholars and activists are soul-searching about the Black church’s role in ...

According to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), the Garden of Eden in which God placed Adam and Eve is located in Jackson County, Missouri, near the town of Independence. Circa 600 ...

Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. An award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, ...