Of special importance to believers is how Shakespeare’s description of the work of poets is ultimately underpinned by the ...

The hope of a new year is here as the Catholic Church enters the 2025 Jubilee, a yearlong period of forgiveness and mercy ...

The intimate Mass led by Pope Francis marked a historic moment — the first opening of a jubilee Holy Door within a prison.

Michael Atwood Mason, director of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, is a folklorist whose research explores how people use their cultural traditions to change their lives.

A documentary about Batiste called "American Symphony" is now nominated for a Grammy for best music film, and Batiste is nominated for best song ... Me, too. BATISTE: That's (singing) "O Come ...

The comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Greg Jenner brings together the best names in comedy and history to learn and laugh about the past.

This hymn centers around the adoration of newborn baby Jesus as he lays in a manger. The lyrics call out for Jesus to "be near me" and "bless all the dear children." "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" is ...

A student from Lourdes Academy Catholic School in Daytona Beach, Fla., stands for life in front of the Florida State Prison in Raiford Feb. 23, 2023, the day Donald Dillbeck was executed by lethal ...

Joy with peace and rest/Have been poured upon me abundantly ... In 1864, a French journal of Catholic music called the hymn “debased and degenerate”, urging its banishment from “houses ...

The scholars made the discovery in a copy of The Aberdeen Breviary of 1510, a collection of prayers, hymns, psalms and readings ... family heirloom of a Scottish Catholic whose travels led him ...

British tourists have been warned about travelling to Italy in the next 12 months over the Roman Catholic Holy Year. The Foreign Office issued the safety and security advice, which stretches to ...