You don’t see this very often in Washington D.C.! Representative Ryan Zinke (R-MT) has been nominated by Donald J. Trump to be the new Secretary of the Interior. And at his Senate confirmation hearing, Rep. Zinke wore something unusual: socks with Our Lady of Guadalupe imprinted on them....
If you visit St. Lambert’s Church in Münster, Germany and look up, you will find something that might be a bit alarming: three human sized cages hanging from the steeple. How did they get there – and why? It all goes back to the 16th century, when Europe was in...
One of the coolest things about Christianity is that it is based on real history: real people, real events, real places. You can actually see relics of these holy people and then visit the places where these amazing events took place. One of the most important sites in the world...
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York is scheduled to read a passage from Scripture at Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony for the U.S. presidency on January 20th. The passage he chose? Wisdom chapter 9. The choice is noteworthy because the Old Testament book of Wisdom is accepted by the...
Pope Ven. Pius XII is best known as having served as the Vicar of Christ during the Second World War (the heroism of his fight to save Jews from the Holocaust has been recently vindicated by new research). He is also known for being one of the few popes in...
Jesus was thoroughly Jewish. Even so, different cultures and ethnicities have often portrayed Jesus and others from the Bible as being from their group. Sometimes this is done to symbolize the fact that Jesus came for all the nations of the world. Since Christianity for many centuries was based largely...
