There is a category of rhetoric technically known by the Greek word parrhesia, usually defined in English as “speaking truth ...

Gigante, therefore, believes that the real tent was adapted to serve as a ‘tetravela’, altar-curtains. “If the real tent was only erected in the church on certain occasions, the fresco could ...

COMMENTARY: Liturgical vestments like copes, chasubles and dalmatics are part of the beauty of the liturgy, alongside church ...

Does anyone ever sit in church and think, “golly, this would make a nifty home?” Because someone did with this 20th century Gothic Revival-style house of worship and made the executive decision to ...

However, when you buy something through our retail links, Condé Nast may earn an affiliate commission. Home altars have always held a central place in my domestic life, not as religious relics but as ...

Martinez said the exhibit encourages all cultures to participate and incorporate their own ideas and experiences into their altars. Martinez said the exhibit is set up to make the dead feel literally ...

An arboreal archaeologist roots around the Italian countryside and in centuries-old frescoes for a cornucopia of fruits long ...

Lunar New Year celebrations begin with the first new moon of the lunar calendar and end 15 days later on the first full moon.

When a new senior housing and care facility opened in Corcoran, its leaders wanted to make a concrete connection with the ...

A church volunteer was surprised to find what ... it was the cross, which has since been returned to its rightful place on the altar. Churchwardens Paddy McShee (left) and Jeremy Hooper with ...

There are two main ideas that will help us see this ... flood subsided was the presentation of “burnt offerings on the altar,” thus performing a priestly act (Genesis 8:20).

He said Christine's "small cell" only had two openings - one for receiving the sacrament and a "squint" allowing her to view "nothing else" but the church altar. "It was a totally solitary life ...