Pope Francis has proclaimed a Jubilee year in the Catholic Church, which began on Dec. 24, 2024, and will continue through ...

CatholicPhilly.com works to strengthen the connections between people, families and communities every day by delivering the news people need to know about the Catholic Church, especially in the ...

TASS-FACTBOX. On January 19, Orthodox believers in Russia celebrate Epiphany, or the Baptism of the Lord, one of the 12 major Christian holidays (along with Easter) dogmatically connected with the ...

Most Catholic houses in Ireland had a crib ... fish was eaten (hake was popular on Christmas Eve) and Midnight Mass attended at the local church. According to tradition, the Christmas candle ...

Generally the tree is not decorated until late Christmas Eve as Advent is still a season of penance, if not as filled with sorrow as Lent is. However, some families find the preparation for Mass ...

Henning visited programs helping those in need and celebrated Mass with local parishioners displaced from their church. The archbishop began Christmas Eve with a morning stop at Catholic Charities ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the shadow of war in G ...

25 - The first Christmas Eve masses in five years were celebrated tonight at Notre ... The event is expected to bring 32 million Catholic faithful to Rome. On Christmas Eve, Pope Francis knocked on ...

Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the top Roman Catholic cleric in the Holy Land ... Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris celebrated its first Christmas Eve Masses since a devastating fire ravaged the ...

John Ahern, who served his Catholic faith as a Central New York ... Family Retreat Days, and Christmas Eve masses for his family. His devotion to the Holy Spirit and the Blessed Mother was deeply ...

On Dec. 21, just hours after practicing on the nearly 100-year-old organ at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in ... and the hours between the two Christmas Eve Masses are spent feasting and hanging ...