Father Michael Martin, the Catholic chaplain at Duke University leads a group of Catholic students in prayer before Carlo Dolci’s artwork at the Nasher Museum. (Credit: Yonat Shimron/RNS.) Listen ...

St. Boniface, who lived on the bridge between the 7th and 8th centuries, is honored as the “Apostle of Germany” because of his work in Christianizing the pagans of those lands. St. Peter Canisius ...

O, be some other name! What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet … Although Juliet had other things on her mind than philosophy when she uttered these ...

For years, the dramatic paintings of Artemisia Gentileschi, a Catholic artist of the Counter-Reformation, were misattributed to male artists – most often her father, Orazio, who was also a painter.

Phillip Campbell is a lay Catholic history teacher, author and editor of The Complete Works of St. Cyprian of Carthage (Arx Publishing). Mr. Campbell is best known for his Story of Civilization series ...

There is a great reform afoot in the Catholic Church! Or so says George Weigel, a prolific Catholic scholar and commentator. In Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church (Basic ...

Two dates in October tell the story of a divided Christendom. October 11, 1962, marks the beginning of the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church. October 31, 1517, signals the coming of ...

A year from now Christians around the world — some with pride, some with sorrow, many with ignorance — will commemorate the start of the Protestant Reformation 500 years ago. Commemorate — not ...

DURHAM, N.C. – Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther is said to have nailed his 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg, Germany’s Castle Church, ushering in a revolt against the Roman Catholic Church.

SINCE the Church of England voted 17 years ago to admit women to the priesthood, disenchanted individual members of the 80m-strong worldwide Anglican Communion have been quietly converting to Roman ...

DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — His meticulous paintings of Christian themes, saturated with emotion and glistening with color, were everything the iconoclast reformers railed against. DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — Five ...