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 ...

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

Thou, Mary, art the Virgin of Virgins. To have a virgin soul is to love nothing on earth in comparison of God, or except for His sake. That soul is virginal which is ever looking for its Beloved ...

There is a little man in Peru, a man without any power, who lives in a barrio with poor people and who wrote a book. In this book he simply reclaimed the basic Christian truth that God became ...

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

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

For many Christians, worshipping together as a community is very important. This is because Jesus said: For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them. Evangelical close ...

IN celebration of their 7th Founding Anniversary, the Guild of Liturgical Designers (GOLD ... alongside a significant Roman Catholic population comprising 73.3 percent of the country as of ...

Isaac of Nineveh, a seventh-century Assyrian bishop venerated across Christian traditions, will be added to the Roman Martyrology ... traditions in the Catholic liturgical calendar.

Pope Francis said people being blessed did not require "moral perfection" Pope Francis has allowed priests to bless same-sex couples, a significant advance for LGBT people in the Roman Catholic ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington has filed for bankruptcy, according to federal court ...

The material, light tan and granular, had been a critical component of the Roman Empire, he said: the precursor to concrete, a mainstay of Roman infrastructure, including the aqueducts that ...