When the origins of your fraternal organization date back 900 years, questions about how your members spend time in the 21st century are bound to arise. Stephen Whitmore, the “Right Eminent Grand ...

In the age of the Crusaders, the most dangerous part of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem wasn’t the prayer - it was the cash.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Did this seal symbolize the order's poverty, homosexuality or companionship with Christ? Hinterkappelen/Wikimedia Commons, CC ...

(AP) – Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has claimed allegiance to the Knights Templar, which he described as a secret society created to carry out a crusade against Islam in Europe.

Today the Poor Knights of Christ, called Templars, are laymen and laywomen from many countries who take up the original charism of accompanying and defending pilgrims who arrive at the holy places. A ...

In contemporary literature, the Order of the Knights Templar was the focus of novels by Dan Brown (“The DaVinci Code”), Umberto Eco (“Foucault’s Pendulum”) and Ken Follett (“The Pillars of the Earth”) ...

After Christian Europeans successfully seized Jerusalem from Islamic infidels during the Crusades of the Middle Ages, various entities originated in the Holy Land to exert influence over this ...