In an inventive mash-up of Catholic Schools Week and the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope declared by Pope Francis, Our Lady of ...

Ringing the handheld Sanctus bells during the consecration and elevation of the Host and chalice at Mass is a familiar sound ...

La Croix: What is the meaning of Christmas in Orthodoxy ... a fast starting on November 15—longer than Advent in the Catholic tradition. This liturgical period features special Sundays, such ...

Deacon Greg Kandra provides a reflection on the readings and Gospel for the Presentation of the Lord, Feb. 2, 2025.

The Feast of the Presentation officially closes the Christmas season, 40 days after the Nativity, so there’s still one last ...

The Hebrew Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament, offers instructions about celebrating a Jubilee every 50 years.

Lunar New Year, or Tết Nguyên Đán (Tết), is Vietnam's most important celebration - a time to honour ancestors, cherish family ...

The Holy Doors of the basilicas of Rome, the beautiful churches, the countryside around Assisi, the gelato and the pasta and ...

Micaela Darr, 47, of Arcadia, who runs a Catholic-mom blog, told the Register that displaced families will need help long ...

Pope Francis, recently honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, formally began the Jubilee Year in Rome on Christmas Eve with the ... with the Lord’s Prayer, the Catholic profession ...

Father Vachetta decided to give them the gift of a novena--a prayer going deep ... readings of the day. The Christmas novena, as it is now known, begins on December 16, nine days before Christmas, and ...

Pope Francis now almost always uses a wheelchair to move around and has occasional problems with breathlessness. At Christmas Eve Mass in St Peter’s Basilica, he could be seen wearing what appeared to ...