For Irish Catholics, the day ... religious sister who he says walked in the steps of St. Brigid. “We often talk about founding fathers of a nation or church — St. Brigid is our founding mother.

Where did Valentine’s Day originate? For years, the consensus among historians was that the holiday had something to do with ...

Ahead of the resumption of the inquiry today, Michael Gallagher, whose son Aiden was one of those killed in the bombing, ...

Hebrew scholar and Jewish academic Irene Lancaster reflects on challenges experienced by European Jews 80 years on from the ...

From glow-in-the-dark rosary beads to St. Christopher dashboard statues and Pope Francis bobbleheads, a tribute to the complicated life of Catholic kitsch ...

In fact, the Catholic Church recognizes several saints named Valentine or Valentinus, all of whom became Christian ... poem “Parlement of Foules” was the first to record St. Valentine's Day ...

Many Americans have heard the expression “I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine” – in fact, a quick Google search turns ...

Negar Sabet is urging the Australian government to help secure her ... non-Muslim religious minority in Iran, with an estimated 300,000 followers. A series of Sabet's poems written inside Evin ...

Subsequently, her eldest daughter, Riley Keough, took those recordings, added her thoughts, and finished her mother’s memoir ... and just hang out all day. Trapped in Elvis’s bedroom.” ...

Henderson thanked his mother and ... pastor of Kingdom Christian Center. "He truly is about service before self, which is what I believe my father tried to embody every day in this community ...

but for me its naething but what I say i’ my father’s house every day, and I dinna see how he could hae tauld it ony other way’. The poem plays upon major themes in the work of Burns ...

She has followed in both her mother and father’s footsteps as an ... and really appreciate every contraction ... It was the best day of my life.” Though Blue has already shown an interest ...