Adoration or veneration of an image or representation of Christ's cross does not mean that we actually adore the material image, of course, but rather what it represents. In kneeling before the ...

Mystics in the West had their own veneration of Christ’s Passion. Henry Suso (1295–1366), betrothed to Christ crucified, walks the monastery carrying the cross, and accompanies Our Lady to her house ...

A scholar of medieval Christianity explores the history of Christians who spoke out, unafraid to risk official censure or even death. Luce carries symbols that have been associated with pilgrimage ...

Intercessory prayers for the Church and the entire world, Christian and non-Christian. Veneration of the Cross Communion, or the 'Mass of the Pre-Sanctified.' ...

SUMNER COUNTY, Tenn. -- A man who stole a crucifix from a Pensacola church in early December was caught with it Wednesday night at a Tennessee motel, according to Pensacola Police and the Sumner ...

We were in luck, the porter said: It was a feast day. The relics of the monastery’s saintly founder were on view for public veneration. As a Catholic and a medievalist, I can never resist meeting a ...

A Detroit priest has been charged with battery after an incident involving a 13-year-old girl in November during a St. Jude relic tour at a church in the south suburbs. The suspect, 50-year-old Carlos ...

Archaeologists Dr. Jess Thompson and her colleagues have published a study dealing with the possible identification of human skulls used in ancestral veneration in the European Journal of Archaeology.

Every president has mentioned God in one way or another in Inaugural Addresses, including President Trump on Monday ...

We were in luck, the porter said: It was a feast day. The relics of the monastery’s saintly founder were on view for public veneration. As a Catholic and a medievalist, I can never resist ...

The beloved blessing of the throats on the feast of St. Blaise has outlasted empires, plagues and revolutions — proving that ...