St. Catherine of Alexandria’s witness to the faith was short, dramatic and even bizarre. A beautiful Christian noblewoman martyred in the fourth century, St. Catherine, whose feast day is Nov. 25, had ...

A deadly plague enters Italy from China, quickly spreading to the rest of Europe. The Roman Catholic Church, racked by division and questions concerning the pope, surveys the bleak landscape. The Holy ...

The Black Death has been described as the greatest catastrophe in history. Between 1346 and 1353, this epidemic of bubonic plague killed 50 million people—60 percent of the population in Europe.

Dating back to the sixth century BC, St Catherine's Monastery is the world's oldest continuously inhabited monastery — Sally KANDIL Nestled in the Sinai mountains, the ancient St Catherine's Monastery ...

Good news for those with plaid skirts collecting dust in the back of their closets: Ex-Catholic guilt just got a hell of a rebrand. In her debut graphic novel, “Saint Catherine,” Anna Meyer trades the ...

You could see the lights,and the Ferris wheel, above Hempstead Turnpike, in Franklin Square, well before smelling the pork braciole, and sizzling steaks, cooking on an open grill: The annual Saint ...