In 1968, Jane Porter, a British Catholic, was living as an undergraduate student in Brazil but after contracting an illness, she fell victim to a “false” healing carried out by an indigenous ...

St. Brigid’s Day and Imbolc, a pagan holy day associated with the goddess Brigid and heralding the coming of spring, both fall on Feb. 1, although Ireland is observing the public holiday on the ...

Catholic Altars Replaced Pagan Pyramids In time for the June 13 feast of St. Anthony, a visit to St. Anthony of Padua Convent in Yucatan, Mexico, which was built on the ruins of an ancient Mayan ...

Unlike other pagan communities in Rome, the group doesn’t have any initiation rite, and everyone is welcome to join. “The Roman religion is not about saying these are my gods, and there are no ...

A team of archaeologists has uncovered the ruins of an ancient pagan temple from the Roman period in Italy. The temple was found during excavations in the ancient hilltop town of Spello, which is ...

Pagan religion locates the sacred within this world. In that way, paganism can consecrate the world from within; it is religiously relative to an immanent sacred.

PAGAN BABIES: And Other Catholic Memories Gina Cascone, . . Washington Square Press, $12 (160pp) ISBN 978-0-7434-5327-1 ...

It's terrible, no? That person isn't a Christian: he is a pagan! The Christian serves (and) lowers himself," said the Pope on Dec. 18 in St. Peter's Square.

Opinion Today's letters: Catholic church, pagan chaplain, $20 million house and more Published: Apr. 07, 2010, 1:20 p.m. By Your Letters Malefactors craft false claims about the pope To the Editor: ...

German Catholic bishops have entered the latest controversy over the nature of the Christian religion with a pamphlet to combat the neo-pagan attacks on Christianity as a Jewish religion, the ...