(RNS) — On Saturday (Sept. 3), 56 pilgrims from four countries will gather in Mexico City to celebrate St. Phoebe’s feast day and consider how they might urge the church to reclaim the diaconate for ...

On June 28, the Catholic Church celebrates St. Irenaeus of Lyon, who as a boy sat at the feet of Polycarp, eagerly listening to the sermons of the early Christian bishop and disciple of the apostle ...

I went with some friends to see the latest Christian movie in the theaters the other night. We sat in an air-conditioned building in large, comfortable, reclining chairs and watched a high-definition ...

I just returned from a hopeful and energizing Rome pilgrimage to archeological sites of women leaders in the early church. This was the fourth such excursion sponsored by FutureChurch, a U.S. church ...

An area that is left ambiguous by the Salisbury statutes is the responsibility for providing a screen across the chancel arch. Screens in general were an important part of the late medieval parish ...

Editor's Note: This is a longer version of the print interview. Speaker, author and writer Marcellino D’Ambrosio’s book When the Church Was Young: Voices of the Early Fathers (Servant Books, 2014) is ...

In the early days of the Christian Church, the supranational, one-world ideal founded by Alexander the Great and perpetuated in the Roman Empire was very much alive. Although Greece as a nation was ...

A mural of Archbishop Oscar Romero and Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande is seen in El Paisnal, El Salvador, March 9. (CNS photo/Octavio Duran) Readers of America may be aware that Pope Francis recently ...

Yet, the effectiveness and relevance of churches can vary significantly depending on leadership, societal context, and ...

The Church was central to community life throughout the Middle Ages, a situation that seems to have suited everyone - until the Lollards started kicking up a fuss. Where did the seeds of change spring ...