A 2,000-year-old burial cave in Israel is continuing to stir debate. Who exactly was buried here? Was it one of Jesus’ female ...

Despite its Parthian ties, Osroene gradually came under increasing Roman influence. In 114 CE, it was absorbed into the Roman ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated the feast day of Sts. Peter and Paul with the traditional blessing of palliums for new archbishops.

"Let us bring the peace of the risen Lord to our world, with the freedom born of the knowledge that we have been loved, ...

On this Sunday's Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, the Church honors two saints who responded to the Lord's call to ...

While it is archaeologically impossible to say that the tomb recently uncovered in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is the burial site of an individual Jew known as Jesus of Nazareth, there is ...

A Tomb Once Said to Hold ‘Jesus’s Midwife’ Might Instead Hold Ancient Royalty For centuries, Christian devotees visited a tomb, believing it to belong to an apocryphal Biblical figure.

Rather than the Biblical figure sometimes described as “Jesus’ midwife,” the tomb might have held a figure of Judean royalty.

Rather than the Biblical figure sometimes described as “Jesus’ midwife,” the tomb might have held a figure of Judean royalty.

Christian tradition maintains that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre marks the location of Jesus' crucifixion (known as Calvary or Golgotha) and his nearby tomb, which today is crowned by an ...

Of the four gospel accounts of what happened at Jesus’ tomb on Easter morning, Matthew’s is the most embellished, for it alone places guards at the tomb, names the tomb’s owner, reports a ...

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com “At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.”- John 19:41 ...