Most Westerners are at least vaguely familiar with the popular Christian version of Heaven: pearly gates, streets of gold, winged angels and the Righteous, with their bodies made perfect and immortal, ...

The Church celebrates the Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary on Oct. 7, a celebration originally known as Our Lady of Victory. The victory in question was the defeat of a Muslim naval invasion force ...

The first full flowering of Christian art took place in Byzantium, the Greek-speaking extension of the Roman Empire. Founded in 330 by the new Christian Emperor, Constantine, this long-lived culture ...

Last week, one of the largest chains of Christian bookstores announced that it will no longer carry “heaven visitation resources,” the deliciously batty genre that includes the best-sellers Heaven Is ...