Cardinal Blase Cupich of the Archdiocese of Chicago, in a letter published this week in the archdiocesan newspaper, urged Catholics to stand while receiving Holy Communion and not make gestures that ...

“Like the prophets before him Jesus expressed the deepest respect for the Temple in Jerusalem.” (CCC 583) (photo: Salomon de Bray, “The Queen of Sheba Before the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem”, 1657) ...

Israel’s policy with regard to “the unity of Jerusalem” and freedom of access to the holy places there to all religious faiths was reiterated here today by Israel’s Foreign Minister Abba Eban in a ...

Recalling its successive resolutions which expressed the concern of the United Nations in Jerusalem by reason of the presence therein of Holy Places, religious buildings and sites; Noting that the ...

A special collection will be taken on Good Friday to support Christians in the Holy Land in Catholic churches throughout the world. In an interview with EWTN, Vatican Cardinal Leonardo Sandri said ...

1. Paragraph 7 of the resolution of the General Assembly of 11 December 1948 deals with the Holy Places in Palestine and provides "that the Holy Places – including Nazareth – religious buildings and ...

Friar Francesco Patton, the outgoing Franciscan custos of the Holy Land, reflected on his nine years in office and proposed a path to achieving peace in the face of war in the region. He also noted ...

Consideration of a Swedish proposal introduced in the United Nations Special Political Committee and calling for internationalization only of the Holy Places in Jerusalem will be resumed here tomorrow ...

Wherever you go, the experience is usually the same. You enter a church or a cathedral, and an ecclesiastical hush descends. You admire the architecture, the artworks, the centuries of history and of ...