My late classics professor taught me that Ancient Greek tragedy dramatized different points of view, insisted on empathy, and ...

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

April 22, Earth Day is celebrated once again as over one billion people help the Earth recover from the ravages of ...

Kabbalah intertwines with Greek philosophy, from Neoplatonism to Pythagorean symbols, shaping Jewish mystical thought.

Since the day break of civilization, people have looked for to clarify the beginnings of the universe, Soil, and life itself.

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, OFM Conv, archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica, delivered the following homily during the fourth day ...

AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start ...

Christ lives in the heavenly realm ‘above,’ but not just there, for he also manifests his resurrection life in me.

In recent decades, some Christians have moved away from the theory of penal substitutionary atonement, which summons up the ...

Typhon, or Typhoeus as he was also called, was a monstrous, serpentine creature with a hundred heads that could shoot fire ...

For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that’s little changed since its founding more ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...