As the legend surged “in the 12th century, when the doctrine of purgatory ... “People will tell me, ‘My parents did it’ or ‘My grandparents did this pilgrimage.’” “Many come to ...

receive Communion and pray during a Jubilee Mass at the Altar ... a way "to eliminate that time that we are to spend in purgatory." Often people think that "if I go to confession, that's it.

I disappeared for three weeks to visit Soviet Jewish refuseniks during Passover. Forty years later, the lessons I learned ...

Trump is also imposing a $100 tariff on rosaries and medals blessed by the pope when they are brought into the U.S. by ...

In the old Irish calendar the day after St Patrick’s Day is Sheelah’s Day, in commemoration of the woman who many believe to have been Patrick’s wife. According to Shane Lehane, a folklorist at ...

Leave people wanting more.” Since releasing her first EP in 2022, Judeline has caught the attention of fellow acts like ...

Michael Shannon makes his directorial debut with Eric LaRue, a school shooter drama focused on the aimless parents of the ...

I was a teenager when I first met Ayoola Lawrence Oluwole Olukanni, one of the most politically conscious, perceptive, charismatic and efficient African ambassadors I have ever known. I had joined a ...

The official death toll of the earthquake that shattered central Myanmar surpassed 1,600 people, the country’s military ...