On June 28, the Catholic Church celebrates St. Irenaeus of Lyon, who as a boy sat at the feet of Polycarp, eagerly listening to the sermons of the early Christian bishop and disciple of the apostle ...

Because most of history relies heavily on literary records written by men, discovering reliable historical data about Christian women can be challenging. This search is further complicated by the fact ...

I went with some friends to see the latest Christian movie in the theaters the other night. We sat in an air-conditioned building in large, comfortable, reclining chairs and watched a high-definition ...

Women's History Month is a great time to celebrate the "mothers" of our Christian church. Until recently, few realized that early female believers shaped our church's future no less than their ...

Early Christians focused on of the sacredness of individuals, not demons, says historian Gary Ferngren. As Christians join the rest of the country in jousting over the proposed changes to our health ...

(RNS) — On Saturday (Sept. 3), 56 pilgrims from four countries will gather in Mexico City to celebrate St. Phoebe’s feast day and consider how they might urge the church to reclaim the diaconate for ...

Although later pushed to the side, women in early Christian communities often owned the 'house churches' where congregations gathered to worship. The status of women in early Christianity has been ...

An area that is left ambiguous by the Salisbury statutes is the responsibility for providing a screen across the chancel arch. Screens in general were an important part of the late medieval parish ...

Editor's Note: This is a longer version of the print interview. Speaker, author and writer Marcellino D’Ambrosio’s book When the Church Was Young: Voices of the Early Fathers (Servant Books, 2014) is ...

Founding a private chantry was much too expensive for most people, but the desire to have masses said for people's souls after death was, nevertheless, popular. In consequence, many individuals joined ...