The booklet claims that the Catholic Church dropped the "Second Commandment" which forbids "graven images", i.e. statues. Allegedly the Catholic Church condones statue worship. Now one version of ...

For centuries, pilgrims came to Assisi to walk in the footsteps of a saint who preached to birds, embraced poverty and ...

What the Catechism of the Catholic Church says on "The Trinity ... God's parental tenderness can also be expressed by the image of motherhood, [Cf. Is 66:13; Ps 131:2.] which emphasizes God's ...

Siegfried Sassoon’s late-life conversion and poetry offer a moving meditation on faith, suffering and the redemptive light of ...

COMMENTARY: The deacon’s reverent presence at the altar invites us to rediscover the mystery, humility and mission at the ...

A 4 c. BC Greek fresco bearing striking similarities to the traditional portrayals of the Virgin Mary has been discovered in Aigai, Greece.

In Part 2 of "The Saints," legendary director Martin Scorsese looks at the lives of Saint Francis and others who sought ...

Retired National Geographic photographer Jim Richardson pores over a lifetime of images in his Lindsborg, Kansas, studio. He spent more than three decades with and traveled to all seven continents ...

For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas — or Father Spyridon, as he’s affectionately called — has prayed, worked and ...

That image appeared in major newspapers around the world: a ring of superheated gas 55 million light-years away, about the width of our solar system, spiraling into an abyss with the mass of 6.5 ...

However, prior to the March 16 release of a photo of the pope, positioned from an angle behind him, the question that kept coming up was: When will we see an image of Francis? Aside from the photo ...

During a two-day session in Ahmedabad, Congress leaders, including Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, intensified their criticism of the BJP and RSS, particularly regarding religious freedom and ...