The Borgias became prominent in both ecclesiastical and political affairs, producing two popes: Alfons de Borja, who ruled as ...

For a particularly meaningful way to visit Rome’s major churches - and to sidestep the crowds - try following in the ...

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 ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose ...

There exists today a tiny enclave of Calabrian Greeks, Greek-speaking people in Reggio Calabria, Italy, that seem to have ...

Catholics suffer from widespread ignorance of important, historical precedents of both female and lay ecclesial leadership.

Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — ...

Pope Leo XIV addressed thousands of representatives from the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, gathered at the Vatican’s Paul VI ...

The Dome of the Rock was built by Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. This dazzling piece of architectural brilliance is one of the oldest and most revered Islamic monuments. Adorned with intricate ...

A decade later, then-Cardinal Prevost turned his eye to Vance, a convert to Catholicism just six years ago ... The stealth contender broke through the byzantine Vatican politics and may yet break ...

A decade later, then-Cardinal Prevost turned his eye to Vance, a convert to Catholicism just six years ... The stealth contender broke through the byzantine Vatican politics and may yet break ...