The Lamb of Christ, found on an altar at Saint Patrick’s Basilica, represents Jesus’s devotion to guiding and leading the ...

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned abortion ... Athenagoras (177) in his "A Plea on Behalf of Christians" (a defense against paganism) emphasized that Christians consider ...

We tend to think of Christianity over against paganism in the Roman empire but we have to be a little bit cautious about what we mean by paganism. First of all paganism itself is really not a ...

A blessing (from to bless, Old English bleodsian or bletsian) originally meant "sprinkling with blood" during the pagan sacrifices ... has been introduced into Roman Catholic worship as well.

They had just come from blessing in the Church of St. Agnes on the Via Nomen ... When she was about 12, a pagan Roman, Sempronius, insisted she marry his pagan son and renounce Christianity.