Q: What is the big deal about incense at church and where in the Bible does this come from? A: This question was posed to yours truly by a student, who apparently did not think a great deal of the ...

This week, once again, we have one of those situations where the parashah starts and ends in the middle of Christian chapters. Note that the Masoretic text does clearly mark Exod 30:10 with a פ as the ...

With hymns echoing through marble halls and incense in the air, it was meant to be another quiet morning at St. Peter’s ...

Billowing clouds of incense at Mass and the inability to receive Communion can force some Catholics to cover their face or get out of the pew because of allergies and a sensitivity to wheat.

During Dia de los Muertos, families will always set up and ofrenda. Here is everything to know about what goes on one and how ...

AN interesting article by Dr. Max Ohnefalsch-Richter appears in Globus of November 17 (xcviii., pp. 293–7), m which he brings forward data to prove his earlier supposition that the first site of ...