From mummies to werewolves to ghosts, ‘The Catholic Handbook’ offers a collection of spiritual and paranormal oddities.

IN a lecture of this title recently delivered at the London Hospital and published in the Lancet of November 7, Dr. Donald Hunter, physician to the Hospital, remarks that the world to-day is too ...

A new restoration of a church in Mexico has revealed a host of resplendent 16th-century religious paintings that once spanned ...

The Martyrs of Compiègne, a group of 16 Discalced Carmelite nuns executed during the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution ...

SAINTS & ART: The witness of St. Thomas Becket, whose feast day is Dec. 29, underscores the perennial truth that no earthly king reigns above Christ. Detail of Willem Vrelant, “The Martyrdom of ...

St Oliver Plunkett's head is on display at St Peter's Church in Drogheda A severed head, a stolen heart, a bloody Valentine - they could be props from a bad horror film. They are also among some ...

Above the Abbey's Great West Door stand ten statues to modern martyrs - Christians who gave up their lives for their beliefs. The martyrs are drawn from every continent and many Christian ...

At the Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj, a unique pandal named "Shaheed Gram" has been set up at Sector 18, which honors the Indian ...

That the Church honors the Holy Innocents along with St. John the Apostle and St. Stephen the first martyr in the first days after Christmas should not surprise us. The correlation between ...

BLESSED Martyrs of Compiègne were guillotined for their faith on July 17, 1794. VATICAN—Pope Francis has declared the 16 Discalced Carmelite nuns of Compiègne—who were executed during the ...