In the past 100 years, the Catholic Church has instituted seven new liturgical feast days, including Christ the King, the Holy Family, Baptism of the Lord, and St Joseph the Worker. However liturgical ...

Prelude Holy Week begins on Palm Sunday and ends on Vigil of Holy Saturday. One may ask why there are a lot of importance ...

The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his ...

Archbishop Nelson J. Pérez celebrated Mass on Good Friday commemorating the Holy Passion and Death of Jesus Christ.

Throngs of Catholics made their way slowly to the 16th century basilica's main altar, where Francis' simple open wooden ...

18 1224 Our Lord voluntarily ... 1271 Baptism constitutes the foundation of communion among all Christians, including those who are not yet in full communion with the Catholic Church: "For men ...

A new survey in France illuminates the surprising pathways bringing young people to the Catholic faith in unprecedented numbers at the coming Easter vigil. The Catholic Church in France will ...

Visitors have been able to step into a reconstructed 17th-century Catholic ... because of Lord Baltimore's policy of liberty, of conscience and freedom of religion that [the church] could be ...

Luisa Arguello, second from right, and other parishioners pray in the perpetual adoration chapel at St. Benedict Catholic ... church. It blossomed in the Middle Ages after the church instituted ...

The body of Pope Francis is lying in state in St. Peter’s Basilica, where it will remain for three days until his funeral ...

The St. James Cathedral in Orlando will be hosting a Holy Mass for Repose of the Soul of Pope Francis. The celebration is set ...