Monastic communities and similar religious orders possessed all of the qualities necessary for producing fine alcoholic beverages.Durango Herald file Alcohol abuse is no laughing matter, but is it sinful to…
The performance of the carol by Austria’s Kroll Family Singers and ensembles from Trinity Church took place at the Alexander Hamilton memorial in the Trinity churchyard. The singers stood in…
A nun waits for the arrival of Pope Francis for his weekly general audience, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. The Catholic Church’s global organization of nuns has denounced…
The Rev. Patrick Conroy, chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives, delivers an interfaith message on the steps of the Capitol in 2016 for the victims of the mass shooting…
Together the pieces will create a Swiss government-funded reproduction of an apse that adorned a 6th-century church in the island’s north. The mosaics were stolen by Turkish art dealer Aydin…
In this October 2018 photo, American adventurer John Allen Chau, right, stands for a photograph with Founder of Ubuntu Football Academy Casey Prince in Cape Town, South Africa, days before…
Dan Iddings, owner of Classic Lines, a bookstore about a half-mile from Tree of Life Synagogue, works in his shop in Pittsburgh. Iddings plans to celebrate Thanksgiving with about 20…
Pope Francis greets people as he arrives at a lunch, at the Vatican on Sunday. Pope Francis is offering several hundred poor people, homeless, migrants, unemployed a lunch on Sunday…
Jamie Casey, right, speaks with Brian Peets at a homeless camp in New Bedford, Mass., on Aug. 10. “For 20 years I fought and fought and fought against myself. Because…
The community is invited to attend and hear the reading of the President’s Proclamation as well as readings from the Bible and “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,”…
The Vatican said Wednesday its Nativity scene this year will be built from sand and sculpted by an international set of artists. About 700 tons of sand will be shipped…
Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, prepares to lead the USCCB’s annual fall meeting, Monday Baltimore.Patrick Semansky/Associated Press Cardinal…
An Amish girl chases a cow from the outfield during a baseball game in Bergholz, Ohio. Most Amish practices that look ecological are better understood as a by-product of their…
A Catholic-run project in Las Cruces that offers short-term refugee housing says the rise in Central American migrants headed to the U.S.-Mexico border and a recent change in federal practices…
Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, center, light candles with students during an event to commemorate the victims of the Nov. 9, 1938, terror against the Jews in Germany at the Jewish Traditional…
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Construction started in October to build a new sanctuary at Marvel United Methodist Church. The sanctuary was four decades in the making. Church-goers saved money for the extension since 1974.Courtesy…
In the latest twist in a case that has bedeviled investigators for 35 years, the Vatican said Rome’s chief prosecutor had been called in and forensic investigators are working to…
Retired Catholic priest Jerome Coyle in Albuquerque, N.M. An Associated Press investigation shows that the diocese based in Sioux City, Iowa, quietly transferred Coyle to New Mexico for treatment after…
The shooting rampage that killed 11 people at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue on Saturday is being decried as the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history, allegedly carried out…
The umbrella organization of Catholic religious orders in the U.S. is suggesting its members consider voluntarily identifying priests accused of sexual abuse, opening up what could be a major new…
The pieces were examined by the Germany-based firm BAM, which tested them and concluded that they might not truly be parts of the ancient manuscripts found in the Qumran Caves…
Pope Francis waves to faithful at the end of the Angelus prayer he delivered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Sunday.Gregorio Borgia/Associated Press Pope Francis has convened a…
Dioceses seeking to share victims’ stories of abuse
Moon “conveyed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s desire for a papal visit to North Korea,” the South Korean presidential office said in a statement. A formal invitation directly from…
Pope Francis poses with Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera and his wife Cecilia Morel during a private audience at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018.Associated Press file The Vatican’s unusually detailed…
Addressing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ twice-yearly conference in Salt Lake City, Russell M. Nelson said the church’s name “is not negotiable.” “When the Savior clearly states…
