San Giorgio Maggiore church in Venice ... The lowdown The remnants of this 17th-century Jesuit church embody the story of Catholicism in Portugal’s East Asian empire. “In terms of cross ...

The recycled buildings of Rome, long dismissed by architects, are getting a reappraisal as a model for how to reduce waste while creating something fresh.

Get off at the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, and take the lift to the top of the church ... third weekend in July, when the city and lagoon are lit up by fireworks. Gritti Palace, a 15th ...

The reliquaries contain bone fragments of Saint Nicholas de Myra who was born in southern Turkey during the third century ... Inside St. Nick's church in Turkey, where the bones of the man ...

Distinct to Argentina, and emerging in the 1960s, the theology of the people shared liberation theology’s focus on social ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario Bergoglio is born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest of ...

VATICAN CITY -- Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, 1936: ...

Pope Francis was the first non-European head of the Roman Catholic Church in more than a millennium. Jorge Mario Bergoglio ...

As the Catholic Church charts its third millennium, the synod symbolizes its attempts to discern the path ahead. Francis sought balance between tradition and innovation, the local and the universal.

No doubt I will outgrow my lack of appreciation for church as such, in this world or the next. Nevertheless, my indisposition has given me—as indispositions sometimes do—a unique vantage point, one ...