Mario Paredes, general director of SOMOS Community Care, proclaims, is in tune with Pope Francis: “No to deportations! Yes to ...

Judge Frank Caprio's courtroom was more than a place of judgement — it became a place of mercy — and now, as he battles cancer, he needs our prayers.

Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and ...

One legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided ...

Valentine’s Day is a holiday for people worldwide to share their love and affection. But did you ever wonder how the holiday ...

In the mid-3rd century CE, Emperor Decius ordered that everyone in the Roman Empire is to offer a sacrifice to the Roman gods. This caused a controversy among Christian communities as bunches of ...

February the Fourteenth has been a day to give love to others in the name of Saint Valentine. But who is he? Is Valentine's a religious holiday…or Pagan all the way? Where did chocolate come in? Who’s ...

Each Valentine's Day, millions of Americans gift their partners or loved ones with flowers, cards or candy as a token of ...

Newark Advocate faith columnist Jeff Gill explores the history of Valentine's Day and how it connects to today's interpretation of the holiday.

According to History.com, exchanging Valentine's took off in the 1700s, a period coinciding with Romanticism in literature and art across Europe and America. When a woman named Esther A. Howland began ...

By GHK Lall President Ali may think that he is inspirational. He is not. His Valentine usually has the smell of turpentine. It was what I picked up in that announcement from Excellency Ali: ...

My first exposure to Valentine’s Day was when I was 9 years old watching season three, episode one of “Barbie: Life in the ...