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

What the retired curator will tell you is each of the hundreds of crosses in the “Cove of Crosses” has a story to tell. They ...

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.

In Bydgoszcz, Poland, a powerful Passion Play performed on Palm Sunday is bringing new life to one of World War II’s darkest chapters.

Palm Sunday services at the Royal Poinciana Chapel, the Basilica of St. Edward and the Episcopal Church of ...

Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.

The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often ...

On Good Friday, April 18 (weather permitting), at 3 p.m. at the Way of the Cross shrine in New Ulm, the Most Rev. Chad W. Zielinski, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of New Ulm, will lead a public ...

Spanish Catholics are asking the church to save a religious site from threats by the Spanish government, which claims it ...

On the Saturday before Holy Week, the Orthodox Church commemorates a major feast of the year, the miracle of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ when he raised Lazarus from the dead after he had lain in ...

What the Catechism of the Catholic Church says on "The Trinity:" 232. "Christians are baptized 'in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit' [Mt 28:19.] Before receiving the ...