The West once was pagan and then became Christian; historically, it is the pagan-Christian West. Today, in contrast, it has become the Christian-pagan West. No century was ever more misjudged than ...

In fact we have to remember that it's the Christians who use the term pagan to define those people who are not Christians. It's a Christian term for another group or the other people and so really ...

The second book of Kings describes Hezekiah’s suppression of pagan places of worship, or “high places.” It outlines how he “removed the high places, smashed the sacred stones” and “did ...

The cultures of the nations, even if pagan in origin, are converted and maintain whatever is good about them, being incorporated into the Catholic Church of Jesus Christ. The nations are not only ...

In the world of Christian literature, the Bible stands as the best-selling book and simultaneously one of the most questioned ...

The Lamb of Christ, found on an altar at Saint Patrick’s Basilica, represents Jesus’s devotion to guiding and leading the Christian people to salvation. In Ancient Greek and Roman pagan traditions, ...

So, clearly all of those aren't martyrs. What are they? We have pagan catacombs, Jewish catacombs, and Christian catacombs. But one of the things we do see in the middle of the third century is ...

Eventually a tamer version of the custom was incorporated into the Christian calendar as St. John’s Eve. As a result, the conventional Polish celebrations of midsummer are an interesting mix of pagan ...