As the Church celebrates the feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist today, learn how science helped to authenticate his relics — and the story the Church has told about them for centuries. In a new essay for Our Sunday Visitor, writer Shaun
As Advent approached, Pope Francis gave a small fragment of Jesus' crib back to Catholics in the Holy Land.
At the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome Nov. 22, experts from the Vatican Museums extracted a small fragment from the relic of
Pope Francis said giving fragments of St. Peter's bones to the head of the church founded by Peter's brother, St. Andrew, was meant to be a reminder and encouragement of the journey toward Christian unity.
During a search for the remains of a young Italian woman missing for more than 30 years, workers discovered an enormous number of bones inside two ossuaries in a building next to a Vatican cemetery.
Everyone passing away leaves behind material traces of their life. The existence of a Jewish man, called Jesus of Nazareth, is supported by strong historical evidence. The question therefore is raised: Are the various artifacts associated with his life truly authentic? Apart
In what Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople described as a "brave and bold" gesture, Pope Francis gave the patriarch a famous reliquary containing bone fragments believed to belong to St. Peter.
The incorruptible heart of St. John Vianney, who used the confessional and his gift of reading hearts to lead thousands of central Europeans away from sin and toward devotion to God during the mid-1800s, made its way through the Diocese of Phoenix