Every Monday morning of my 16 years of preaching, I’d slide open my filing cabinet to add another sermon manuscript to the archive. When I couldn’t stuff one more into the drawer, I’d take the stack ...

Pope Francis is cheered by faithful as he arrives in the Paul VI hall on the occasion of the weekly general audience at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.) Listen ROME ...

Although they like to call themselves temples of art, most museums have shed their religious purpose and become secular malls crammed with objets d’art. But the word museum once denoted a “seat of the ...

St. Mark’s Roman Catholic Church at Burlington, Vt., a gleaming structure of glass blocks and red brick produced by local architects who were chosen because they had never designed a Catholic church ...

Pope Francis said Wednesday that having Mass centered around the altar is meant to remind faithful that the cross is the first Christian altar on which Christ offered the sacrifice of his life. During ...