In some ancient cultures, bread was more than just food. It was a symbol of faith. Ancient Greeks baked small round loaves marked with crosses to honour their gods. According to some historians, these ...

When you’re lost in the rain in Juarez and it’s Eastertime too. And your gravity fails and negativity don’t pull you through.

In a world besieged by the violence of impatience, the Cross and Resurrection of Jesus show us how to enter into the patience ...

As the presumed anniversary of the day of the Crucifixion, Good Friday had for ages been solemnly observed throughout ...

Millions of Filipinos around the world are Catholic, thanks to the Spanish colonizers who introduced the religion mainly as a ...

It was perhaps the best dish I had during my week in Armenia and, despite the long list of VIPs who had dined in the al ...

Is 'The Lord of the Rings' a Catholic epic? Some consider it a parable of the Gospels, much to the dismay of several scholars ...

Easter, the greatest festival of the Christian church, com­memorates the resurrection of Jesus. It is a movable feast; that is, it is not always held on the same date. In AD 325 the church council of ...

According to Vandeput, there are so few scholars working in ancient Pisidian languages that the inscription may never be deciphered, and thus crucial details about their wars, gods and other ...

Charles Brammall rabbits on about Easter. I didn’t grow up going to church on Good Friday- it wasn’t part of my denomination’s expression of piety. But for the last few years I have started going ...

I desired dragons with a profound desire,” fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien once said about his childhood imagination, ...

One viewpoint is that Easter is rooted in the celebration of the fertility of a pagan goddess, Ishtar, who was from Babylonian times.