The pope’s funeral will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said. The funeral Mass ...

Pope Francis has designated 2025 a Jubilee year in the Catholic Church, and NJ travel agencies hope a fragile ceasefire in ...

It was moved to the town’s Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church of the Holy ... inside Lviv’s Peter and Paul Garrison Church. Certain sculptures, unable to be removed, were covered in place.

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

Ancient Greek philosopher Apollonius lived in the 1st century CE. He frequently associated with Jesus Christ since his life ...

Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Further along, an angel holds the Veil of Veronica, the cloth used to wipe Christ’s sweat and blood, on which his face was imprinted. The base of this sculpture ...

The ecumenical "donation" by the Vatican furthers a campaign to press the British Museum to hand back a collection of sculptures taken from the ancient site in Athens more than 200 years ago. View on ...

The rock is visible along the basilica’s ambulatory and at the top through a glass panel in the Greek Orthodox chapel ... today known as the Chapel of the Angel — the small space inside ...

A replica of Angels Unawares, the bronze sculpture installed in the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square to commemorate the 105th World Day of Refugees and Migrants, will grace the outside of O’Neill Library ...

Over the next several hundred years, marriage evolved into a widespread institution embraced by the ancient Hebrews, Greeks and Romans. But back then, marriage had little to do with love or with ...

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