In a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 20, the pope declared three nineteenth-century founders of religious orders and the eleven “Martyrs of Damascus” as saints to be venerated by the global ...

On the road to Damascus, there was not so much a fall from a horse as iconography has always imagined Saint Paul at the ...

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The pope said “the climate of dialogue between the two Churches has lost the acrimony of the past and today allows us to hope ...

Recognizing the shift away from the primarily Western-led Christendom era of missions, COALA, which stands for Christ over ...

Pope Francis invited all Catholics this week to get to 'learn about these new saints and ask for their intercession' in ...

The gospel lectionary reading for Trinity 21 in this Year B is Mark 10.35–45. The lectionary choice is unfortunate this week, in that it cuts out the verses following last week’s read, Mark 10.32–34.

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Which religious groups are most active in politics today may surprise you, but in today’s Dispatch Faith, seminary professor ...

Mescal will be playing Lucius, the son of Crowe's Maximus character from the original film. The Gladiator movies are set in Ancient Rome, with the sequel following Lucius, who is forced into slavery ...

Ex-One Direction singer Liam Payne died Wednesday after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires. Here's what we know — ...