In the late Middle Ages, Christianity was widespread in Europe and Christmas celebrations every December were the norm in ...

Worshippers gathered on Tuesday evening for Christmas Day Mass at Cathedral Notre Dame, the first since it reopened after a ...

Iceland has a long and rich literary tradition. With its 380,000 inhabitants, the country has produced many great writers, ...

Known as the “Golden City of 100 Spires,” Prague boasts a fairy-tale medieval Old Town, historic churches and synagogues, and ...

On Christmas Eve, Pope Francis will open the first Holy Door in St. Peter’s Basilica, inaugurating the Jubilee year. This ...

Rome has completed the most ambitious of thousands of construction works that have disrupted daily life in the Eternal City ...

In Born in Blackness, Howard W. French explores Africa’s critical role in shaping the modern world through the transatlantic ...

A team of archeologists working at the Church of St. Nicholas in Demre, Turkey, say they may have found the grave of St. Nicholas, who has been popularized worldwide as “Santa Claus.” ...

As Trump II looms, the church faces a profound contrast between a Jubilee of Hope and a world driven by fear and revenge.

Millions of people believe it to be the burial cloth that wrapped the crucified body of Jesus Christ (circa 4 BC-33 AD) but ...

From the iconic Rockefeller Center’s tree to the world’s largest in Italy and the most expensive worth $5.5 million, these ...