Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the murder of St Thomas a Becket, Pope Pius XI reaffirming ...

Though the Church no longer exercises direct influence on the U, there are ties that persist through legislation and finances ...

The First Five Hundred Years,” Paula Fredriksen explores how a localized sect became a universal Roman church.

First, Stephen explicitly associates his death with Christ’s, repeating two of Jesus’ own words from the cross. He asks that ...

Learn about the origins of "O Come, O Come Emmanuel,' 'O Little Town of Bethlehem' and 'Hark, the Herald Angels Sing.' ...

Thucydides’s account, History of the Peloponnesian War, is considered a classic, as well as being one of the earliest known ...

Father Robert Regoli’s insightful study, now available in an updated English edition, examines the complexities of Benedict’s ...

In a hands-on history of art and architecture course, students researched a stained-glass window uncovered in a local church, ...

In this episode of , Colleen Dulle and Gerard O’Connell discuss the 2025 Jubilee Year, beginning on Christmas Eve 2024 and ...

“I could see red through our stained glass windows; it was just heartbreaking.” According to the church’s website, the building was constructed of bricks made by slaves. The website also has a photo ...

The name Advent (From the Latin word Adventus, which signifies a coming) is applied, in the Latin Church, to that period ... in the second book of the History of the Franks by St. Gregory of ...

It has two levels of meaning: the surface meaning plus a hidden meaning known only to members of the Church. Each element in the carol has a code word for a religious reality which the children ...