Pope Leo XIV, who authorised the mass, seems content to let the incense waft while taking Francis’s line on issues such as ...

Jesus did not appear to a woman in Dozulé, France, in the 1970s, and the messages she claimed to receive, including about Jesus' second coming, are misleading and twist central Christian teachings, ...

In many spiritual traditions across the world, burning incense has been a central part of prayer and ritual for centuries.

A top American cardinal celebrated a traditional Latin Mass on Saturday in St. Peter's Basilica with the explicit permission of Pope Leo XIV, thrilling traditionalist Catholics ...

Start with the assumption that heroes are not nice. They are not meant to be. Niceness is the enemy of vision, and Martin ...

Some of the recent advances in the quest to catch a whiff of history are featured in the new book Scents of Arabia: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Olfactory Worlds, co-edited by Huber.

Pope Leo XIV has authorised a traditional mass to take place this weekend at the Vatican, lifting restrictions that angered conservatives in his latest attempt to heal splits within the Catholic ...

Washington Cardinal Robert W. McElroy blesses the new Newman Room at the Catholic Student Center at the University of ...