Beneath the Latin Church complex or ldquo convent rdquo in the village of Smakieh Jordan may be found a set of caverns unearthed by Francisan archeologists in the early twentieth century nbsp The underground chambers date back to the Stone Age but what makes them memorable are the small red cr

AMMAN Jordan nbsp mdash nbsp On 13 June 2013 nbsp Pope Francis granted an interview to Israel rsquo s Channel 2 TV at Santa Marta the Vatican guesthouse where he lives That interview made history it was the first time that a TV crew entered Santa Marta to interview the pope What is not known

Does travel insurance cover diplomatic faux pas Let rsquo s hope the Vatican has invested in the deluxe package for Pope Francis He begins tomorrow a whirlwind visit to the Holy Land that he insists is NOT political but personal and religious so naturally his every gesture will be mdash has alrea

During his lifetime and especially since the posthumous publication of his writings the late Jesuit paleontologist and spiritual writer Pierre Teilhard de Chardin did as much to renew the faith of 20th-century Catholics and inspire non-believers as any single Catholic figure with the possible excep

If academics ever decide to take The Beatles seriously as a subject worthy of doctoral level research and debate Mark Lewisohn would surely be considered the godfather of their scholarly pursuits Since the mid 1980s Lewisohn has written or contributed to numerous books about the Fab Four all of

Are American nuns paying for the sins of a Jesuit priest who died in the 1950s It might seem that way given the ongoing showdown between doctrinal hard-liners in the Vatican and leaders representing more than 40 000 U S sisters with one of Rome rsquo s chief complaints being the nuns rsquo conti