In this article A door that changed the world The monk with a troubled conscience The ninety-five theses and the fire they lit What Luther actually taught The town that

Georgians have a saying that you have not really seen their country until you have stood in Mtskheta, and they do not mean it lightly. This small town where two

Source: Pixabay Rising from a plain in central Greece, the towering rock pillars of Meteora carry some of the most extraordinary monasteries in the Christian world. Perched on sheer summits

Table of Contents A Monastery Glued to a Cliff Where It Hides in the Pontic Mountains The Founding Legend and a Wandering Icon Centuries of Emperors and Sultans The Rock

For more than eight hundred years, people have been walking to Canterbury. In the Middle Ages they came in their thousands, by foot and on horseback, to pray at the

Source: Pixabay In the hills of central Portugal, the town of Fátima has grown around one of the most important Marian shrines in the Catholic world. Each year millions of

Source: Pixabay At the foot of the Pyrenees in southwest France, the small town of Lourdes has become one of the most visited pilgrimage sites in the Christian world, welcoming

The mountain itself looks unreal, like something from a dream or a fairy tale. Rising abruptly from the plains not far from Barcelona, Montserrat is a vast formation of rounded

About seventy kilometres northeast of Moscow, a cluster of brilliant blue and gold domes rises above the small town of Sergiev Posad. This is the Trinity Lavra of St Sergius,

Source: Pixabay To understand why the Vatican matters to more than a billion Catholics worldwide, it helps to look beyond its art and architecture to its history and its role