Within the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, a variety of liturgical books have been officially approved to contain the words to be recited and the actions to be performed in the celebration of ...

27, the First Sunday of Advent, the Catholic Church in the ... of the “Missale Romanum,” the Roman Missal. This is a time for great rejoicing and liturgical renewal. The official version ...

THE Roman Catholic Church ’s three-year Synod on Synodality ( News, 25 October) has concluded on Sunday with a final report ...

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The word “Halloween” derives from “All Hallows Eve,” which means the eve of All Saints' Day, a holiday that has also been ...

For centuries, the Catholic Church widely observed All Saints’ Day (Nov. 1) as an octave, extending the holy celebration to ...

GODFREY: Luther and Melanchthon said that the Roman Catholic Church began around 600 with Pope Gregory the Great. They called him “the Pied Piper leading the church astray.” The development of the ...

Situated on the outskirts of ancient Rome along the still-visible Aurelian Walls is the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, the ...

That traditional belief has morphed over the centuries into the spooky and secular celebration of Halloween. But one day later, Christians in many countries around the world are celebrating All ...

Daniel Merz, a pastor in Columbia, Missouri, who chairs the diocesan liturgical ... Roman Missal. The new decree still relies on the U.S. bishops' Committee on Doctrine's 2020 document, "Catholic ...