Ahead of Ascension Day tomorrow, we’re looking back at the key date in the Christian calendar and how we’ve marked it over ...

Two masterpieces, centuries apart, reflect a theological insight centuries old: Mary was given not only to John, but to the ...

I traveled to Rome to accept an award for my recently published novel, The Accidental Jesus. The event would cap this year’s ...

images of the Blessed Virgin and of the saints, rosaries, and scapulars. Q. 1075. When are candles blessed in the Church and why are they used? A. Candles are blessed in the Church on the feast of ...

In the Resurrection and Ascension, love moves, changes, transforms and even becomes unrecognizable from how it began––just ...

St. Augustine calls this life the ‘Before Easter’ season — a time of labor, suffering and praise — preparing us for the ...

Bill is the Rector of Christ Church, Indiana, where he has served since 1999. The Feast of the Ascension on May 29 will be Bill’s last service celebrating and preaching at Christ Church.

Rev. Paul Nicholson, S.J., begins his homily for the Ascension with a striking image from Medieval art: Jesus’ feet dangling ...

But do we even notice Ascension Day, which annually tiptoes by on a Thursday (May 29 in 2025, in case you wondered)? Do we pause to marvel at the message of Jesus’s ascent in a cloud to God’s right ...

5:8-10 would be redundant. Now if God simply forbids the making of graven images, then there are problems elsewhere in the Bible. First, in Exodus 25:18-21, God commands Moses to make two statues ...

The Service and Ceremony of the Installation of Knights Grand Cross of the Order will be held at Westminster Abbey on Friday 16th May 2025. The Most Honourable Order of the Bath was established as a ...