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

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

Homes at a long-vacant housing development which was left unfinished after the previous company fell into administration are now being advertised for rent. Properties at the Friars View ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

First, is there actually a growing trend of young men looking to become Orthodox Christians? Second, is it correct to ...

The monk Friar Giovanni da Verona also painted a drawing of the pachyderm, which can now be seen in the Vatican Museums, in one of Raphael’s rooms. Annone also inspired the American historian ...

Sister Simona Brambilla will head the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

skulls and skeletons of 3,700 departed friars. Robed mummified monks pose among hundreds of stacked empty-eyed heads and complex patterns: rosettes of shoulder blades, arches of ribs, crosses of ...