King Charles's recent visit to the Vatican may appear to be simply a symbolic gesture of ecumenical goodwill. But moments ...

If I told you that I visited Notre-Dame de Paris in March of this year and that, while there, I had begun to get this strange ...

A wildlife group in the national parks of Italy's Abruzzo – a vast green area known as the "lungs" of Europe - is offering an unusual kind of tourism: tracking wolves. It's part of an effort these ...

Christianity has long been a powerful force in South Korean society and its battles over democracy. South Korea is among the ...

It was just mysteries inside mysteries inside mysteries, like a Russian doll of family secrets. “Every time I step around a ...

The Benedictines, for instance, reorganized agriculture to the point of feeding — thus saving — Europe ... These targeted the Catholic Church in France, killing somewhere between 2,000 ...

"Come general, the affair is over, we have lost the day," Napoleon told one of his officers. "Let us be off." The day was June 18, 1815. By about 8 p.m., the emperor of France knew he had been ...

His election reflected a broader geographical shift in the church. Although the Vatican has been Catholicism’s spiritual and ...

Pope Francis’s encyclical, Laudato Si’, was published almost 10 years ago. This environmental text sought to move the ...

The Catholic Church will proclaim its first millennial saint on April 27, elevating Carlo Acutis, a teenage web developer who died from leukaemia in 2006, to the same status as Saint Francis and ...

The Church believes that, because a prospective saint is in heaven, he or she can intercede with God to perform the miracle for someone on earth who has prayed for the prospective saint's help.