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 ...

This weekend marks the beginning of Holy Week, a week of great significance to Christians, commemorating the final days of ...

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

The deafening clang of hammer on metal echoes through the cavernous sanctuary at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church. The mournful wailing of women intensifies as a beleaguered man, nailed to a ...

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 ...

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

The country’s Catholic bishops will consecrate the Philippines to the Divine Mercy on April 27 as the Church celebrates ...

According to tradition, a part of the Holy Cross was discovered by the mother of the emperor Constantine, St. Helen, on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 326. A fifth century account describes this ...

But, through love, the cross is to become the throne from which he reigns. The people of Jerusalem and those from abroad who have come for the Passover push their way through the city streets ...

Easter weekend is approaching, and will mark a later-than-usual date on the calendar for the Christian celebration. Not only ...

Siegfried Sassoon’s late-life conversion and poetry offer a moving meditation on faith, suffering and the redemptive light of ...

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 ...