Washington D.C., Mar 2, 2023 / 16:00 pm. The bishops of England and Wales announced this week that the distribution of holy Communion from the chalice during Mass will resume starting Holy Thursday.

The Holy Thorn also has royal connections. Every Dec. 8, in a tradition dating back nearly a century, a sprig of Holy Thorn is taken from a specimen growing in a Glastonbury churchyard and sent to ...

Roman dodecahedron found in England is one of 'archaeology's great enigmas' More than 100 of these artifacts have been found across Europe, but no one knows what they were used for.

The first Roman Catholic Holy Year is believed to have been instigated by Pope Boniface in 1300. The last ordinary Holy Year was held in 2000 under Pope John Paul II.

Archeologists are hopeful that an ancient Roman aristocrat's remains recently unearthed in northern England will shed light on the region's transition from Roman rule to the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms ...

LONDON (AP) — Archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be a Roman shrine beneath a former graveyard in the grounds of a cathedral in central England.. Experts from the University of ...

Archaeologists hope the discovery of a 1,600-year-old burial site will provide key details about a little-known period of British history.

He also oversaw the ecumenical council at Chalcedon in A.D. 451, which is where the Roman Catholic Church affirmed the dual nature of Christ as divine and human. Pope Leo I set a high bar for all ...