This chart shows a selection of celebrations and traditions carried out between Good Friday and Easter Monday.

In the sixth century, as the Roman world unraveled into the early medieval age, a scholar-bishop in what is now southern Spain sat down to encode the whole of human and divine knowledge into a form that could survive the coming darkness. His name was Isidore of Seville.

“I earnestly admonish you, therefore, my brothers, to look after your spiritual well-being with judicious concern. Death is certain; life is short and vanishes like smoke.

Aboard the papal plane Dec. 2, Pope Leo explained his spirituality.

Attributes such as community building and moral guidance in the United States can trace their roots to religion.

This visualization maps out the share of…