A long-awaited excavation by Italian archaeologists has finally taken place beneath the floors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The church is believed to have been built in part upon ...

The limestone box, or ossuary, features the inscription 'James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus,' written in ancient Aramaic.

The gospels describe how Christ restored sight to a beggar after sending him to wash in the Pool of Siloam, in Jerusalem. Now a monumental dam marking the former location of the pool has been found by ...

Under an ordinary residential building in Jerusalem’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood, a robotic arm with a camera inserted into a Second Temple-era burial cave has revealed mysterious inscriptions and ...

The ongoing violence in the Holy Land, especially now with the war in Gaza, was addressed by the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, in his homily during the solemnity of ...

A coin minted by Jewish rebels just before the destruction of the Second Temple – an event Jesus predicted in the Gospels – has been unearthed in Jerusalem. The 2,000-year-old artifact was found at ...

Goshen • The townsfolk of Jerusalem rest in the shade of pillars, dressed in woven cloth to protect against the harsh sun and the desert sand — both of which are plentiful on this windy afternoon.

I’ve been writing in recent columns about Jesus in his historical context. The purpose has been to show the way that the Church has always had a social teaching.

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The recent attack by Israel’s military on Gaza’s only Catholic Church has been met with global outrage. The shell fired from an Israeli tank ...