A convalescing Pope Francis greeted the crowd in St. Peter’s Square on Palm Sunday, wishing more than 20,000 faithful a “Good ...

For Christians, Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week, the days before Easter commemorating events in the last days of Jesus Christ’s life. The Scriptures say that on Palm Sunday, Jesus rode into ...

Mukti Clarence S.J. Holy Week is the most solemn and spiritually intense period in the Christian calendar, marking the final ...

An ecclesiastical holy year is meant to have an influence, to give added meaning, to everything the Catholic Church does over ...

A growing number of Catholic parishes in the U.S. are restoring altar rails, renewing reverence and transforming the faithful ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Bible stories recorded by Kenneth Williams are to be broadcast for the first time. James Jones describes how they were made ...

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 ...

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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 ...