5+ hour, 39+ min ago   (709+ words) Jeff Knapp paints an exterior wall of the St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Coeur d'Alene on Wednesday. RAY ERKU/Press David St. Amand loads a brush during a project to repaint the St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Coeur d'Alene on…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (895+ words) St. Paul is one of the many Christian figures whose paintings have made an appearance. Holger Uwe Schmitt/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA It begins with the music: a late 1990s rap song. Then someone appears on screen, moving slowly into a…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago   (572+ words) After a breakaway group consecrated bishops without the pope’s consent, the Vatican declared Thursday that the Society of St. Pius X is in schism with the Catholic Church, excommunicating its bishops and priests and warning adherents that they could be…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago   (754+ words) In 1526, books appeared in England that no one had seen before: printed New Testaments in the English language. The public snapped them up. For the first time, people read now-common phrases such as "the powers that be" and "the spirit…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (449+ words) The Taong Putik, or Mud People, festival is held annually in this village in Asia's largest Catholic nation as devotees thank the local patron saint for miracles and fulfill vows made in prayer. Melencio Nenuda, a 39-year-old construction worker, said…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (642+ words) Organ, brass and choral singing thundered inside a modern Orlando shrine during the service, a centerpiece of the spring assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. "To consecrate ourselves to the Sacred Heart is ultimately to accept Jesus' invitation to…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (811+ words) ATLANTA (RNS) — The past 25 years have been rough for American churches and other houses of worship. The median worship attendance dropped by more than half. Church closures and the rise of the nones — those who claim no religion — have grabbed…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago   (851+ words) Pope Leo XIV prays with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, left, in the Urban VIII Chapel inside the Apostolic Palace, at the Vatican on Monday, April 27. Vatican Media via AP The encounter between Christianity's two most famous religious figures…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (958+ words) "From there, the painting looks as though it were painted in the middle of the refectory," said Venturelli of the masterpiece depicting the Gospel story of Jesus' final meal with his apostles. "It unleashes all kinds of human and spiritual…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (286+ words) Many local clergy along with the Bonner Human Rights Task Force, faithfully and with reverence for our country strongly support the separation of church and state, upholding the wisdom of our founders... Protecting the sacred: faith and freedom As an…...