The Vatican rendered a Catholic monastery in North Texas "extinct" after one of its nuns reportedly broke her chastity vows. According to the Houston Chronicle, the judgment follows a year-long ...

Discover the beauty of Norcia and the Benedictine monastery on the Mountain. Join Ross Douthat on a captivating journey in ...

The number of people attending confession has increased at Mount Melleray in recent weeks, with some sessions lasting ...

Christmas in Maaloula was marked by fear, as the rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham's rise to power rekindled memories of ...

Amada Cardenas, a Mexican American woman who lived in the tiny border town of Mirando City in South Texas, played an ...

The local tales like that of Jungfrau actually being an ogre and monk protecting a young virgin ... which commemorates the ...

Here we are again with the same old formula, the same old characters and the familiar complete and total absence of wit ...

Santa Lucia with her saint symbol: her own eyeballs on a platter. Markus Krueger | Program Director HCSCC ...

On a quiet street on a quiet October night, a group gathered in a garage-turned-studio for a party, one that revolved around a hulking, century-old letterpress machine. Artist Mary Bruno smeared ...

Memorable Christmases often involve trips, of going home or picking up loved ones, or interior journeys, where certain truths and values are realized. For Father Charles McCarron, pastor of St. Mary’s ...

In the Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel, Hamas-led militants killed about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and took more than 250 Israeli hostages. Israeli officials believe that around 100 ...

Bethlehem is an important center in the history of Christianity, but Christians make up only a small percentage of the ...