Priests wear vestments for liturgical functions as a sign of their office. Vestments add beauty, elegance, reverence and ...

Workers have completed a phase of conservation work on historic murals by the late artist Maxo Vanka at St. Nicholas Croatian ...

By Barb Arland-Fye The Catholic Messenger Catholics celebrated Mass for Pope Leo XIV in English, Spanish and Vietnamese at ...

And the priests invited him, despite his Lutheran faith, to the Catholic Mass. Despite always being discouraged as a Lutheran to attend a Catholic Mass, he decided to give it a try. “At that ...

Confession, the Catholic and Orthodox practice of listing one’s sins in the presence of a priest who then offers absolution and is sworn to secrecy under pain of eternal damnation, has long been ...

A Massachusetts firefighter was vacationing with his family in Bermuda when a 75-year-old Catholic priest was found floating unresponsive in water. The New Bedford firefighter quickly sprang into ...

"As priests, we often bless ... of Blessed Carlo Acuti, a devout Catholic and Italian computer-coding teenager who died of cancer in 2006. His canonization Mass was to take place Sunday in St ...

SENECA, Kan. (WIBW) - A funeral service is taking place Thursday morning for a beloved Roman Catholic priest who was fatally shot this past week in Seneca. A memorial Mass for the Rev. Arul ...

The Catholic parish ... old rite and required that priests get special permission to celebrate it. The parishes that are still allowed to offer the traditional Mass can’t advertise it in their ...

SENECA, Kan. (WIBW) - A funeral service has been scheduled for a Roman Catholic priest who was fatally shot this past week in Seneca, officials said. A memorial Mass for the Rev. Arul Carasala ...

A Catholic priest serving at a church in Downey was arrested after being accused of raping a minor, LA County records showed Tuesday. Fr. Jaime Arriaga, 41, was removed from ministry at Our Lady ...

The murder of a Kansas Catholic priest at his church’s rectory was carried out "intentionally and with premeditation," a prosecutor said. Gary Hermesch, 66, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, remains in ...