Lightning strike data shows seven strikes occurred near the church just before the fire was reported. There were no injuries ...

A secret "covert" Catholic church built more than 300 years ago has been discovered in Dublin, Ireland. According to the Irish Times, the church was discovered by a group of archaeologists led by ...

SAN FRANCISCO — How was the early Catholic Church shaped in the cultures of the ancient cities of Jerusalem, Rome, Milan, Constantinople, Ravenna, Antioch, Alexandria, Ephesus, Carthage and ...

St. Mary Church in Mokena concluded its Year of the Eucharist Sunday with a Corpus Christi Mass and Eucharistic procession that wound around the grounds of the church and along 195th Street to the ...

Officials are investigating after an ancient, religious artifact was stolen Thursday from St. Dominic's Catholic Church in San Francisco. 24/7 Live San Francisco East Bay South Bay Peninsula North Bay ...

Excavators working at an ancient Catholic church in Italy recently found an even older religious symbol: the head of an ancient deity. The Appian Way Regional Park announced the find on Facebook ...

He did, and Francis encouraged the couple to behave like any other Catholic family. Rubera said he's worried that the next pope may not be as eager to welcome him and his family into the church.

As Amman recently learned, until the 12th century, the Catholic Church ordained women deacons. In his Letter to the Romans, Paul introduces Phoebe as a “deacon of the church” and entrusts her ...

Exorcisms performed by the Catholic Church are likely the best-known exorcisms, ... The ancient Greek word daimon—from which the modern "demon" derives—referred to god-like spirits and ...

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While exploring an ancient Catholic church in France, archaeologists discovered a trove of 230 tombs. Further analysis revealed that the tombs were holding much more than just ancient remains ...