The Mass Chapel reminds us that the art of death in bone chapels echoes the ritual of death in the Eucharist. The strangeness ...

In seventh-century Emesa, Syria, a man walked through town tugging a dead dog on the end of a rope. He defecated in public, ...

Bearing witness to centuries of history, these Gothic, Romanesque or Baroque monuments are uniquely recognizable by their ...

Early Christian churches were often shaped like an octagon, which was an early Christian church symbol for the resurrection of Jesus and, more broadly, the rebirth of life. Archaeologists recently ...

"The building, which dates back to the 4th century, is the oldest archaeologically documented church in the country — a sensational testimony to early Christianity in Armenia," Achim ...

“The fourth-century building [offers] sensational evidence for early Christianity in Armenia,” says Achim Lichtenberger, an archaeologist at the University of Münster in Germany, in a statemen ...

A few weeks ago, Cardinal Vincent Nichols requested that a specially prepared Pastoral Letter on assisted suicide be read in ...

As archaeologists discover new ruins revealing the ancient origins of the church, new technologies reveal the extent of its destruction in Azerbaijan.

and where the apostles Thaddeus and Bartholomew preached Christianity in the early first century, this discovery is a very ...

In its early centuries, Christianity achieved a phenomenal growth rate: it is estimated that it had hit roughly 30 million followers by AD350. Yet things might not have turned out that way.

The use of "anno domini" and "before Christ" to mark time began in the early days of Christianity, and they're still used to track calendar years today. When reading historical texts or delving ...

The Vatican introduced an anime-style mascot named Luce to represent Catholic pilgrims in the 2025 Jubilee year on Monday, ...