VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The temptation to cling to the past – to hold on to what was, including something sacred -- can keep ...

The second, and even more significant, move toward reverence was turning ad orientem, that is, the priest at the altar facing ...

DEVOUT believers join retreats every Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Black Saturday, commemorating our Lord's Last Supper, his ...

As we enter into Holy Week in this Jubilee Year of Hope, the faithful of the Diocese of Brooklyn are called to immerse themselves in the paschal mystery with renewed fervor.

Archbishop Peter Chung Soon-taick of Seoul has called on the faithful to stand united in hope and conviction as South Korea ...

As we enter into Holy Week, helped on our spiritual journey by the celebration of the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, we find ourselves in a place of many contradictions.

Reflection: Let us walk this pilgrimage of faith, the Via Lucis, as daughters and sons of the light and as witnesses of the Risen Lord. Let us meditate upon the resurrection of Christ and discover ...

Acts 6:3 Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. The qualifications of this office will be ...

He records a superb witness list to the fact of resurrection, that included people who were initially sceptical but saw the risen Christ and then believed. He is saying to the reader, here are names, ...

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 ...