Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s masterpiece captures the folly of humanity’s desire to reach heaven on its own terms.

The pope looms so large in everyday Italian life that there are lots of expressions that make light of even a dark event like ...

Pope Francis is continuing his recovery from pneumonia, eating breakfast out of bed Thursday morning after a sixth peaceful night at the hospital, the Vatican said.

Do not come any closer.” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” Exodus 35:5 ...

What are the consequences for his health? This Thursday, January 16, Pope Francis had a nasty fall, resulting in a contusion ...

What we know, what is certain, is that the devil has not the power to move you if you stand firm in the faith. It is up to ...

The Pope reached out, affectionately ran his fingers through my hair, then shook my hand, his handshake firm, hands warm. “Smile,” said the shutterbug who captured my father grinning, the Pope beaming ...

Author Richard Foster tells how, as a teenager, he signed up for an internship in Alaska, thinking he would have the adventure of “working on the first high school above the Arctic Circle.” The ...