Since the Roman Calendar Reform of 1969, the Church observes Jan. 1 as the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. This is not, however, an observance pulled out of whole cloth. Honoring Mary as the mother ...

Archaeological discoveries in the Arabian-Persian Gulf challenge traditional Islamic history. They reveal that Christian ...

The original St. Joseph's Catholic Church, built in 1857, is pictured here on the northwest corner of Croghan and Clover ...

Titus 3:3-5 Once again the Catholic Church ... Throughout history, the Church found Herself among cultures practicing slavery and had to deal with it. An early example is St. Paul’s Epistle ...

The finding may upend historians' understanding of how Christianity was practiced in the early Roman Empire ... "Thanks to it ...

Pope Francis prays during a Eucharistic celebration in the Vatican, on the final day of a summit on sexual abuse in the Catholic ... By the early 2000s, sexual abuse within the Church was a ...

it should be in the library of every priest and seminarian and, of course, in Catholic libraries ... stewards his readers through 1,600 years of history in just 366 pages.' Matthew S. C. Olver, The ...