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 ...

An international team of archaeologists has revealed a "remarkable" early Christian church in Egypt, thought to be more than ...

What is the account that we get from Acts about the early history of the Christian church? The Book of Acts records or reports that there was a special event that took place at Pentecost ...

Read excerpts from The Acts of Paul and Thecla. Did stories like Thecla -- the fact that the early church is urging people to abstinence, to effectively be breaking up their families, leaving ...

The question then arises: “Will the church in America be ready and willing ... where even their enemies said of those early Christians that “these who have turned the world upside down have ...

On Oct. 17, the Catholic Church remembers the early Church Father, bishop, and martyr St. Ignatius of Antioch. Irenaeus grew up to write vastly influential documents that witnessed to the early ...