Substantial collection includes key figure of Easter. Clockwise from left: Father Joseph Marquis holds a relic of St. Joseph; Father Mitch Pacwa offers a blessing with a reliquary holding a relic of ...

Amy Surak, the archivist at Manhattan University in New York, oversees a collection of holy relics that have been accumulated by the Brothers of the Christian Schools, a lay order of the Catholic ...

LONDON (RNS) — King Henry VIII and his iconoclast-in-chief, Thomas Cromwell, would be stunned: Nearly 500 years after the English Reformation, Canterbury Cathedral, the mother church of the Protestant ...

PROVIDENCE – Providence College had an unusual visitor on Wednesday – the skull of St. Thomas Aquinas. Or, at least, one of two skulls that may have belonged to the celebrated Catholic theologian. The ...

South Korean clergy and young Catholics have welcomed the relics of Italian teen and youth idol Carlo Acutis who is on the final stage toward sainthood in the Catholic Church. Archbishop Peter Chung ...

As he moves through museums, churches, shrines and display cases, forensic pathologist and archaeologist Philippe Charlier cannot help cataloguing the great figures of history before him: “He is my ...

When Cambodia's bishops met Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican during their recent ad limina, they brought with them two things that live deep in the hearts of every Catholic in the Buddhist kingdom and ...