When a new European Commission takes over this fall under German President-elect Ursula von der Leyen, it will make fresh attempts to tackle the multiple crises plaguing the world's largest trading ...

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano said he believes the Church can give a soul to Europe. "The Church, without interfering in politics, can give a soul to this Europe. A Europe without ...

In a dramatically de-Christianized Europe, it is no longer time for nostalgia for religious leaders, but for the active construction of creative minorities. This is what Andrea Gagliarducci, Italian ...

ROME – With European elections just three months away, the continent’s bishops have joined other Christian churches in lamenting that the Christian principles on which Europe was founded are either ...

Between 2012 and 2020, I photographed several hundred places of worship across Europe. Over time, these places became ...

Cardinals-designate from three continents said Tuesday the Church in the global south has a lot of nonmaterial gifts to share with the West, including the richness of priestly vocations and a ...

When Germany's Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki celebrated his first post-lockdown Mass in Cologne's historic cathedral May 3, it marked a symbolic step towards restoring public religious practices in the ...

PARIS — The fire that ripped through the Gothic Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes July 18 was reported around the world. But suspected arson attacks on French churches usually do not make ...

I would love to see Americans’ reaction if a US politician proposed a law requiring most citizens to pay a tax for the upkeep of churches (albeit with the right to opt out). Surely the vast majority ...

This film explores European life from 1200 to 1500, highlighting the significance of art in documenting this era. It discusses the three main institutions of medieval Europe: the Church, the Emperors, ...

One of the chief characteristics of the ancient world, according to Edwyn Bevan, was fear—fear of life, but even more of death. To bring deliverance from that bondage, Christ came in the fullness of ...

As fire devastates the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, the building is as much a symbol of the recent history of the Catholic Church in Europe as it once was a symbol of the Church’s power and ...