On June 28, the Catholic Church celebrates St. Irenaeus of Lyon, who as a boy sat at the feet of Polycarp, eagerly listening to the sermons of the early Christian bishop and disciple of the apostle ...

An area that is left ambiguous by the Salisbury statutes is the responsibility for providing a screen across the chancel arch. Screens in general were an important part of the late medieval parish ...

The early church didn’t have coffee shops or projection screens. They met in living rooms and shared whatever they had to offer. Somewhere between then and now, we picked up programs and systems but ...

Editor's note: After our editorial "Correct an injustice: Ordain women" appeared in the Dec. 7-20 issue, several readers asked us to provide more background on the history of women leaders in the ...

(RNS) — On Saturday (Sept. 3), 56 pilgrims from four countries will gather in Mexico City to celebrate St. Phoebe’s feast day and consider how they might urge the church to reclaim the diaconate for ...

In the early days of the Christian Church, the supranational, one-world ideal founded by Alexander the Great and perpetuated in the Roman Empire was very much alive. Although Greece as a nation was ...

Editor's Note: This is a longer version of the print interview. Speaker, author and writer Marcellino D’Ambrosio’s book When the Church Was Young: Voices of the Early Fathers (Servant Books, 2014) is ...

Robyn J. Whitaker does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

The Church was central to community life throughout the Middle Ages, a situation that seems to have suited everyone - until the Lollards started kicking up a fuss. Where did the seeds of change spring ...

Lisa Amman is a cradle Catholic who attended parish schools through 12th grade and then worked at her St. Paul, Minnesota, church for 15 years. She would likely never have learned about St. Phoebe, ...