While priests have a few different options for how they greet people at the beginning of Mass, the bishop has only one ...

Easter –– brings thoughts of new life, springtime, of freshness, of the Resurrection. This is not only a day –– not only a few weeks on the Church calendar –– but, for Christians, a way of life.

So, it shouldn't be much of a surprise that the "I Am" statements of Jesus in the New Testament book of John actually have a ...

In recent decades, some Christians have moved away from the theory of penal substitutionary atonement, which summons up the ...

To all, Francis offers a message of mercy. It is a message that has won him both praise and criticism.

It’s Easter—one of the most wonderful times of the year! Easter is often seen as a celebration of resurrection, but the significance of the resurrection goes far beyond the grave. Jesus’s death was a ...

Every year on Good Friday, Christians meditate on the depth ... And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my ...

What was left of the hymn, archeologists found 100 years ago in ancient Egyptian ruins on a scrap of tattered papyrus, long ...

Andy McIndoe and assistant Billy Moss (Image: Finnbarr Webster/Salisbury Cathedral) Other Mediterranean plants such as rosemary, laurel, olive and santolina have been added to the garden. The display ...

Revelation is the only book of Scripture that contains a specific blessing for anyone who “reads and heeds the words of the ...

Via Shutterstock) An excavation at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem uncovered evidence that might confirm the tradition that Jesus was crucified and buried at the site. Archaeological ...