Father Michael Martin, the Catholic chaplain at Duke University leads a group of Catholic students in prayer before Carlo Dolci’s artwork at the Nasher Museum. (Credit: Yonat Shimron/RNS.) Listen ...

There was a lot more to the Catholic Reformation than just responding to the Protestant Reformers — and it started long before 1517. Sanctuary of the Charity of Illescas (Alejandro Ferrant). The ...

O, be some other name! What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet … Although Juliet had other things on her mind than philosophy when she uttered these ...

Phillip Campbell is a lay Catholic history teacher, author and editor of The Complete Works of St. Cyprian of Carthage (Arx Publishing). Mr. Campbell is best known for his Story of Civilization series ...

DURHAM, N.C. – Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther is said to have nailed his 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg, Germany’s Castle Church, ushering in a revolt against the Roman Catholic Church.

SINCE the Church of England voted 17 years ago to admit women to the priesthood, disenchanted individual members of the 80m-strong worldwide Anglican Communion have been quietly converting to Roman ...

DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — His meticulous paintings of Christian themes, saturated with emotion and glistening with color, were everything the iconoclast reformers railed against. DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — Five ...