For centuries, religious lawyers have debated distinctions between monks and friars, simple and solemn vows, religious and consecrated life, and so forth. Once, when I was presenting a session for ...

Set on a steep cliffside surrounded by terraced vineyards and terracotta-roofed buildings jutting out into the Gulf of ...

For Luther, indulgences represented a system that misrepresented the gospel of salvation by faith alone. His bold stand was a ...

A 13th-century Franciscan friary, a family home, a school and now a luxury hotel, this historic Colchester building has had many ...

Pope Francis has appointed Cardinal Robert McElroy, a vocal defender of migrants and critic of Donald Trump’s first administration, as the next archbishop of Washington, DC.

What was once a swath of rocky land owned by Trappist monks is now a haven for wildlife as well as nature lovers ...

The Baroque painter Francisco de Zurbarán is celebrated today as one of the greatest masters of the Spanish Golden Age. His ...

Sister Simona Brambilla will become prefect of the Holy See’s religious life office, which has responsibility for nuns, monks and friars. Early in Trump’s first term, then-Bishop McElroy gave ...

Gloucestershire, with large swathes of its landscape covered by the Cotswolds Area of Natural Beauty (AONB), has seen wars of ...

Sister Simona Brambilla will become prefect of the Holy See’s religious life office, which has responsibility for nuns, monks and friars. Early in Trump’s first term, then-Bishop McElroy gave a speech ...

Sister Simona Brambilla will become prefect of the Holy See’s religious life office, which has responsibility for nuns, monks and friars. Early in Trump’s first term, then-Bishop McElroy gave ...