When a holy day of obligation falls on a Sunday and so is transferred to another day, the Catholic faithful are encouraged to ...

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

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

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

Members of Arizona’s legal community, including attorneys, judges, public officials and others within the profession, joined ...

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 ...

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 ...

Francis spent much of the past decade in relatively good health but has dealt with several painful medical conditions over ...

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 ...

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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 ...