The oldest document in which we find the length and exercises of Advent mentioned with anything like clearness, is a passage in the second book of the History of the Franks by St. Gregory of Tours ...

The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...

The Lenten ritual is six weeks of abstinence and fasting that emerged out of pagan practices. The word itself derived from ...

This formula has been introduced into Roman Catholic worship as well. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus pronounces blessings on the poor, the humble, and the persecuted in the Beatitudes at the ...

French-born painter, a three term Baton Rouge mayor and the former owner of the building that became Baton Rouge’s old post ...

In practice, Moyaert restricts herself even further to Roman Catholic and Protestant imaginations of the religious other, thereby continuing a long history of Catholic and Protestant neglect of ...