Callista and I attended the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception three times this Holy Week. The ...

Among the many traditions and rituals that come into play following the death of a pope, one that has once again garnered ...

No bridal shower. No gift registry. No reception. No first dance. Why is she refusing to do anything her father and I want?

By convention, the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, a senior cardinal appointed to oversee the transition, would destroy the ring and bulla in the presence of the College of Cardinals after ...

But the two churches started using different calendars after Pope Gregory XIII’s adaptation in 1582, when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept ...

While walking through Paul Revere Mall during a visit to his daughter at Harvard, Bulkeley felt an inexplicable pull toward a house behind the Old North Church. Master mason of Old North Church ...

While walking through Paul Revere Mall during a visit to his daughter at Harvard, Bulkeley felt an inexplicable pull toward a house behind the Old North Church. Master mason of Old North Church There, ...

As churches across the country observe Good Friday, more than 100 congregations will also ring their bells to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Boston Old North Church’s Lantern service, which ...

is told in a series of stained glass windows that ring the ovoid worship space, starting with his birth in 1478, all the way to his beheading by Henry VIII in 1535. “We’re the only church in ...

And its ring is mighty. Nancy Taylor is the senior minister emeritus of Old South Church. As she puts it, the bell is the church’s “outdoor voice.” “It’s a singular instrument that most other ...