while others eagerly clutched at garments tossed into the crowd—a gesture of love and connection. Dressed in another garment adorned with a green holy cross, he took a seat facing the bishops ...

On March 5, marking the beginning of Lent, an Ash Wednesday Mass was celebrated at the White House for the staff of the ...

You might walk through a Muslim cemetery on the way to the metro or bus, or leave a shopping mall to face the towering gravestones of a Greek Orthodox cemetery, with massive crosses at their center.

“It’s a common form of rural entertainment here, performed typically by cross-dressing trans men.” The audience of Launda Naach is typically male. It is said to have started at a time when women were ...

For approximately 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide, Rome is the axis around which the entire cosmos turns. It is often said that the Catholic Church “thinks in centuries,” but when the ...

He cares not for formalities or unnecessary gestures of reverence ... in front of the entire world is perhaps one of the heaviest crosses a pope must bear. In many cases, it is the responsibility ...

Israelis have been arrested on suspicion of spying for Iran, prompting speculation about why they were open to overtures from ...

United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has stirred up a heated discussion following his appearance on Fox News' ...