A Roman slave girl in ancient Gaul, Blandine endured torture, lions and scorn to bear witness to Christ — and became a pillar ...

This raucous meeting, which took place exactly 1700 years ago, was one of the most important in Christian history.

On the 85th anniversary of Joseph Brodsky's birth, we revisit the exiled Nobel laureate who never stopped writing in Russian ...

On "Preach," Anthony SooHoo, S.J., draws on unexpected images from Celtic Christianity in his homily for Pentecost, Year C.

This commandment has been coined as the Great Commission and was given by Jesus in a context far different from ours. The ...

Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

Historians give their view on plans to mark the 1,000th anniversary of William the Conquerer and what was more an English ...

Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, is a Greek name, too, deriving from the Greek phrase "Is tin poli," meaning "to the city." ...

In a new essay, Aleksandr Šipkov goes so far as to point the finger at the philologist who, in the 1990s, helped Russia rediscover both Eastern and Western Christian traditions through his lect ...

The U.S.-born leader of the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East discusses the rapid decline of Christianity ...

The Assyrian Church of the East is among the world's most ancient Christian communities, with roots in Mesopotamia. Its ...

The true story of Byzantium's fall reveals a legacy betrayed by the West, misunderstood by the Left, and weaponised by the ...