'A parish of its own': Finding faith inside LA's famous murder hotel
On Dec. 20, 1924, a new hotel opened in downtown Los Angeles. The place was a standout, filled with locally made walnut dressers that stretched half a mile when measured end to end. Of the building’s ...
Art Institute's elaborately displayed tooth, thought to belong to John the Baptist, turns out not to
Researchers took samples from the tooth in 2016. The results, not widely disseminated, showed it was from someone in the 5th ...
St. Thomas Aquinas’ skull just went on tour − here’s what the medieval saint himself would have said about its veneration
In a short but poignant text from his best-known work, ‘Summa Theologiae,’ Aquinas explained his views on venerating relics.