When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

“I was a practicing Christian Catholic for many years. I was a catechist,” Luca Fizzarotti, who recently started attending the ancient Roman rituals, told Religion News Service. “Then I had ...

COMMENTARY: Professing what seems to be unbelievable, and suffering scorn and ridicule from the secular world, need not cause ...

Buddhists have retained this ancient habit. Pilgrims are constantly ... revenue to the Buddhist priesthood as well as to the Roman Catholic. Buddhists revere a multitude of saints, who by their ...

The ban on approaching Roman parishes for the fake bishop who self-proclaims as Patriarch and also Archbishop Primate was not ...

My topic is ancient Judaisms, Jesus’ humanity ... In the words of Elizabeth Johnson, “The historical Jesus has become the new factor in Roman Catholic christology, one of the clearest results of the ...

It is good to recall that the prayers of the Roman Missal are ancient in origin and have been handed down to us over the centuries by the Catholic Church under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

The former leader of the Chicago-area arm of the Passionists order made the promise two years ago in response to a Sun-Times ...

He didn't even know my worldly name," she recalls. Before entering the Carmelite order - an ancient order of the Roman Catholic church - at the age of 19, Sister Mary Elizabeth had been Lisa ...

From people-watching on the Spanish steps to throwing a coin in the iconic Trevi fountain, here are 12 romantic destinations ...

A cross inlaid in the floor of a library marks the spot where Indiana Jones has to dig to access the ancient catacombs ... catacombs in Rome are property of the Catholic Church, and no one is ...

A new proposal would mean that visitors would need to reserve a time slot for up-close viewing and coin tossing at the Trevi ...