Because Easter fell on the same day on the Julian and Gregorian calendars, meaning Catholic and Orthodox were celebrating on the same day, the Vatican added Byzantine “stichera” or hymns and “stichos” ...

The Pope’s urbi et orbi was read by Archbishop Diego Ravelli, the master of pontifical liturgical celebrations, as the ...

Urbi et orbi” means “To the city [of Rome] and to the world.” It is a special apostolic blessing given by the pope every year ...

Leading his first Easter Sunday Mass as Washington’s new archbishop, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy said the Resurrection of ...

For Christians Easter is the day when we believe that Jesus was raised from the dead early on Sunday morning after being ...

Jesus could have been a conman surrounded by other conmen. They, in turn, were willing to die to keep the con going and got ...

What then is Easter? It is God’s Spirit within us, alive and active, an inspiration, a force, enjoyed in all its abundance.

But even though Easter is significantly commercialized in stores and society in general, its origin is rooted in the Bible as ...

Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as ...

Most of us will gather on Resurrection Sunday supremely confident in our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Ironically, the opposite was true of the first Christians on the first Easter. While they had ...

Celebrated as one Great Sunday of 50 days, Easter continues through Pentecost Sunday. Even the names of the Sundays of this season indicate this. The Sundays between Easter and Pentecost are called Su ...