On the rural islands of Nagasaki, a handful of believers practice a version of Christianity that has direct links to a time of samurai, shoguns, and martyred missionaries ...

Cristo, Pulilan, has unveiled the "Korona at Pako" exhibit in partnership with SM Center Pulilan to signal the advent of the Lenten Season. The exhibit, which started on March 16, 2025, features at ...

Cristo, Pulilan, has unveiled the "Korona at Pako" exhibit in partnership with SM Center Pulilan to signal the advent of the ...

St. Patrick's Day observations have taken many forms over the years, but the parade has consistently been the most popular. In 1874, The Dispatch reported on three evenings of St. Patrick’s Day ...

Early Irish residents of Columbus sometimes spent the holiday engaged in more solemn religious gatherings, social events and, with the advent of Catholic churches in Columbus, high Mass.

Advent is my favorite season of the liturgical ... Most peace-loving Christians are uneasy with these images of fire and judgment, viewing them as relics of an older and more violent age and ...

It’s a hymn for the season of Advent — the liturgical season that ... To these biblical images are added various pleas such as: “Come to teach us the path of knowledge!”; ...

The first printed Advent calendar appeared in 1908, which was comprised of little pictures affixed to a piece of cardboard ... Marge Fenelon is the author of “Strengthening Your Family: A Catholic ...

For the second consecutive year, Advent and Christmas in the Holy Land ... She works for several news agencies and online newspapers in the Catholic space. Currently based in Jerusalem, she ...

Advent retreats are a good way to keep one’s focus on Christ during this season of preparation. (Getty Images) “To know Jesus is to love Him,” believes Sue Wheeler of Saint Joseph the Worker Parish, ...

Advent is an unsettling time ... And I love that each new year kicks off a string of Gospels with images not of swaddling clothes or twinkly stars or sleeping lambs, but of the world as it really is, ...