Next week begins the Week called Holy, with Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord on April 13 and concluding with Easter Sunday on April 20. Toward the end ...

Reception of holy Communion on the tongue has been a tradition of the Church for more than 15 centuries. It began, largely, as an effort to affirm that the Eucharist was not a symbol or a ritual ...

Holy Thursday celebrates the institution of the Eucharist as the true body and ... and the need for cleansing with water, a symbol of baptism. Also emphasized are the critical importance of ...

A Satanic group planning a "black mass" at the Kansas Statehouse March 28 has sworn in court it is not in possession of a consecrated host and wine the group said it aimed to desecrate at the event.

not just a symbol — on view in dedicated chapels 24/7. Thousands more churches have regular adoration hours or days. The Vatican is marking a special Holy Year event Friday into Saturday about the ...

An ecclesiastical holy year is meant to have an influence, to give added meaning, to everything the Church does over the course of that year. The Jubilee of Hope is, therefore, like a fresh set of win ...

Christians around the world enter into the solemn observance of Holy Week, the most sacred period in the liturgical calendar.

It calls for the immediate return of holy items to the archbishop ... He alleges that the Eucharist could only have been obtained through illicit means — “theft, fraud, deception, wrongful ...

not just a symbol — on view in dedicated chapels 24/7. Thousands more churches have regular adoration hours or days. The Vatican is marking a special Holy Year event Friday into Saturday about ...

HIALEAH, Fla. (AP) — Twice a week, Luisa Arguello and her husband spend from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. praying in the perpetual adoration chapel at St. Benedict Catholic Church, tucked on a quiet palm ...