In some cultures, menstruation and childbirth are treated as polluting, not life-giving. One Buddhist text’s interpretation ...

The name of “Jesus” as it is now commonly used in the English tongue is merely the final stage of a long series of languages, ...

In his General Audience message on Feb 4., Pope Leo XIV continued his catechesis on the documents of the Second Vatican ...

This is the text from Pope Leo XIV’s Feb. 4, 2026, general audience given in the Paul VI Hall. Dear brothers and sisters, ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

Old Indian poems and folk songs are revealing a surprising truth about the land. Scientists found that descriptions of thorny trees and open grasslands in texts written as far back as the 1200s ...

Amid a small tuberculosis outbreak at Riordan High School, two West Catholic Athletic League basketball games Thursday and a nonleague girls game Saturday have been either postponed or canceled.

Meet Jill Thompson, a blind Benedictine oblate who serves as a lector at St. Scholastica Monastery. She shares sacred texts with devotion and grace.

What does a sacred text go through before it is turned into a book? The cliffs in the Judean Desert are made up of pale limestone and they look over the shore where the salt covers the ground and the ...

This is the text from Pope Leo XIV’s Jan. 28, 2026, general audience given in the Paul VI Hall: Dear brothers and sisters, ...

The Word of God,” Leo said, “is not fossilized, but rather it is a living and organic reality that develops and grows in ...

Pope Leo XIV continued his talks on the Second Vatican Council with an in-depth reflection on "Dei Verbum," the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation.