Pope Francis told ambassadors accredited to the Holy See on Thursday that he wasn’t up to delivering his annual foreign policy speech and asked an aide to deliver it instead. A ...

Of special importance to believers is how Shakespeare’s description of the work of poets is ultimately underpinned by the ...

There's a light that never goes out… well, almost never. Since the invention of commercial light bulbs in the late 19th ...

in that famous and beautiful passage from God’s holy word, the Bible: “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; upon those who dwelt in the land of gloom a light has shone.” ...

The king and his army desecrated Jerusalem’s holy temple — then the locus of ... they could find only a single container of oil to light the menorah that was supposed to burn with an ...

During a few minutes’ work break, he and a group of inmates began to reminisce about how, when they were children back home before the war, their fathers would light their menorahs with such ...

Days before Christmas last year, an Israeli military sniper shot and killed two women inside the Holy Family Parish, according to the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem. This Christmas, the Catholic ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Tuesday formally inaugurates the 2025 Holy Year, reviving an ancient church tradition encouraging the faithful to make pilgrimages to Rome, amid new security ...

Riyadh, July 11, 2023, SPA -- The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah, participated virtually in the Human Rights Council's Emergency Session on the incident of burning ...

Eucharistic adoration at the Holy Family Parish in Gaza ... Gaza’s Catholic community strives to keep the light of hope burning. “There is so much darkness,” Romanelli said.

Francis said. When he formally opens the Holy Year next week, Francis will launch a dizzying 12-month calendar of events that include special Jubilee Masses for the faithful from all walks of life ...

This lamp, I learned from parents and teachers, was an eternal light — the literal meaning ... art from antiquity until today, this ever-burning, seven-branched candelabra symbolized the ...