The 13th‑century German mystic Mechthild of Magdeburg uses erotic love to describe ecstatic, reciprocal union with God.

Over 55 years ago, legendary jazz musician Pharoah Sanders recorded a spiritualist masterwork that remains a critical piece ...

Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of Bishop Mark E. Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, and named as his ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed two auxiliary bishops for the Archdiocese of Washington and accepted the resignation of Auxiliary ...

Over 11 days and four countries, Leo showed how he embodies the spiritual, prophetic, pastoral and symbolic dimensions of the ...

NCR readers respond to stories about the new film "Mother Mary," the application of just war theory to the war in Iran and ...

NCR's Vatican correspondent Justin McLellan stuck to pen and paper to record his impressions of traveling through North and ...

The Vatican Observatory announced in an April 29 press release that an asteroid has been named in honor of Pope Leo XIII, who ...

May 1's memorial of St. Joseph the Worker highlights work's importance to human flourishing. In a world contending with AI, ...

As had been customary by his predecessors, Leo used his first general audience after his April 13-23 trip to four nations in ...

NCR staff reporter Camillo Barone and  Brian Roewe, NCR's environment correspondent honored by professional journalism ...

A24's thriller "Mother Mary" centers a fictional pop star with religious imagery. But electropop duo MOTHERMARY has been ...