Muslims believe that Prophet Muhammad was the last prophet among 124,000 who were sent to guide humankind from the beginning of time. For this reason, Prophet Muhammad is known as the seal of the ...

What do all major world religions have in common? One answer came from the late Joyce Foster, a Benedictine oblate who spent the last years of her very long life writing a book on the virtue of ...

Pope Francis' final Easter message stressed the importance of religious freedom, freedom of thought and expression, and respect for differing viewpoints. The author contrasts the Pope's message with ...

St. Augustine wrote that there were two kinds of love in the world: amor sui ad contemptum Dei et amor Dei ad contemptum sui — “love of self to the contempt of God and love of God to the contempt of ...

Each year, on Feb. 2, the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, is observed, marking 40 days after Christmas. This day commemorates Jesus’ presentation to God in the Temple, in accordance with Jewish ...

ROME – Ahead of his beatification Sunday, the late Pope John Paul I has been praised by family and those who knew him as an example of humility and holiness, and whose brief, 33-day legacy has much to ...

In sixth-century Europe, unprecedented chaos gripped the dying remnants of the Roman Empire. As Europe entered a period of political chaos and moral decline, a young Christian by the name of Benedict ...

World leaders from across Latin America and beyond have paid tribute to former Uruguayan President José “Pepe” Mujica, who passed away at the age of 89, remembering him as a global symbol of humility, ...

In 1994 Thurman Thomas, head bowed with his hands covering his face, sat on the Buffalo bench following his team's fourth straight Super Bowl loss. His three fumbles had helped seal the awful fate of ...