On Good Friday 15 April 1949, His Holiness Pius XII addressed to all Archbishops and Bishops of the Catholic world an Encyclical Letter on the subject of the Holy Places of Palestine. The full text is ...

Recalling its successive resolutions which expressed the concern of the United Nations in Jerusalem by reason of the presence therein of Holy Places, religious buildings and sites; Noting that the ...

“Like the prophets before him Jesus expressed the deepest respect for the Temple in Jerusalem.” (CCC 583) (photo: Salomon de Bray, “The Queen of Sheba Before the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem”, 1657) ...

Holy — a word of many meanings and uses: holy day, holy war, holy Bible, holy ground and holy cow (humorous). A synonym commonly used is sacred. People often journey to holy places to learn, to be ...

When Father Brian Gannon became pastor of St. Theresa Church in Trumbull, Connecticut, the parish’s former convent had been turned into office space and meeting rooms. The sisters’ chapel remained ...

PEOPLE often talk of holy places as “thin”, where the boundary between this world and the heavenly realm is so porous it’s barely there. These are usually ancient sites of prayer and pilgrimage, or of ...

Remarkably for a species that lived successfully as nomads for so many thousands of years, humans have a strong propensity for designating areas of sacred ground, from St. Peter's in Rome to the ...