In historic inaugural Mass, first American pope signals shift with call for unity and peace, traditionalist tone — but offers ...

The church does teach that the Eucharist is the ... They “actually become the body and blood of Jesus Christ,” they are “symbols of the body and blood of Jesus Christ,” or no answer.

Vashti Murphy McKenzie is the first female bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and a symbol of the evolving changes in the ministry and the church’s mission. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.

Early Christian churches were often shaped like an octagon, which was an early Christian church symbol for the resurrection of Jesus and, more broadly, the rebirth of life. Archaeologists recently ...

During the Mass, Leo appeared to choke up when the two potent symbols of the papacy were placed on him — the lambswool stole over his shoulders and the fisherman’s ring on his finger — as if ...

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, vowed Sunday to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a symbol of peace in the world, offering a message of communion during an inaugura ...