During his Angelus address Sunday, Pope Francis asked his listeners to consider the qualities necessary for good leadership.

The things we handle carefully are usually the things we hold in high esteem. When it comes to the holy Eucharist, the living sacramental presence of Jesus Christ, this should be true all the more.

In the twentieth year of his reign (326), the Emperor Constantine sent his mother Saint Helen to Jerusalem to venerate the holy places and to find the site of the Holy Sepulchre and of the Cross.

On the Saturday before Holy Week, the Orthodox Church commemorates a major feast of the year, the miracle of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ when he raised Lazarus from the dead after he had lain in ...

Modern people often regard the idea of a holy war as a contradiction. Killing thousands of people and causing wholesale destruction seems to be as far from holiness as one can get. But religion ...

If Caesarea—officially the Judaean capital from 6 B.C.—could be written off as a city for pagans, the holy city of Jerusalem was also threatened by the Romanizing instincts of their ruler.

Holy basil is an herb from the basil family. Some animal and test tube studies suggest it has potential health benefits, such as aiding wound healing and stress relief, but this may not apply to ...

A cup bearing a striking resemblance to the Holy Grail in the... Dr. Fares Braiza, Professor Fadi Balawi, explorer Josh Gates and Professor Pearce Paul Creasman peer into the newly discovered tomb ...

College of the Holy Cross is a private institution that was founded in 1843. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 3,219 (fall 2023), its setting is city, and the campus size is 174 acres.

Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year in Judaism and follows Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. The name of the holiday ...

The Christian ritual of Holy Communion is introduced. Communion means, simply, 'togetherness' and this is a ritual to show the togetherness of Christians and God. The Last Supper was Jesus' last ...