Pope Francis challenged the notion of walls that divide a common humanity. New art and activism in San Diego highlight this ...

Eastern Orthodox Church, includes Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches. Unlike Catholics, Eastern Orthodox allows priests to ...

if the Eucharist were not a sacrifice or merely a symbol of Christ. In a letter written 110 A.D., St. Ignatius of Antioch warned the Smyrnaeans about the Docetes - gnostic heretics: They (the ...

Apparently there was a conspiracy of the "orthodox church" to keep these gnostic gospels out ... times (reminiscent of Saint Peter's famous denial) but held onto his cross as a symbol of fidelity to ...

That simple but so important Sign of the Cross we see so often holds a hidden history that takes us back to the origins of ...

In the article, Daniel Silliman described the work of a Bible scholar who has proposed the possibility, based on historical ...

According to tradition, a part of the Holy Cross was discovered by the mother of the emperor Constantine, St. Helen, on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 326. A fifth century account describes this ...

Such perceptions of the sea in Scripture are influenced by ancient Near Eastern myths that regard the sea as a symbol of chaos and destruction, Old Testament scholar Kenneth W. Lovett writes.

With a million people on the truck's reservation list and a $120,000 price tag, it quickly became a status symbol. Less than two years later, the waitlist has disappeared. Trucks are piling up in ...

Beginning in the late 1940s, the white picket fence became synonymous with the American Dream. Lambert / Hulton Archive / Getty Images In little Taylor, Mississippi, outside Oxford, a developer ...