Ringing the handheld Sanctus bells during the consecration and elevation of the Host and chalice at Mass is a familiar sound ...

Pope Francis opened the final Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica, marking the start of Jubilee 2025. With the “Pilgrims of ...

Pope Francis opened the final Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica, marking the start of the Jubilee of Hope. With the theme ...

COMMENTARY: Liturgical vestments like copes, chasubles and dalmatics are part of the beauty of the liturgy, alongside church ...

San Carlos Diocese Bishop Gerardo Alminaza's apology comes amid growing concerns over clerical abuse in the Philippines ...

The Hebrew Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament, offers instructions about celebrating a Jubilee every 50 years. The Jubilee has roots in the Jewish practice of Sabbath rest every seven days ...

Lunar New Year, or Tết Nguyên Đán (Tết), is Vietnam's most important celebration - a time to honour ancestors, cherish family ...

The McConnon sisters needed a trumpet player. The three young women performed in a liturgical ensemble at St. Luke in St.

The Holy Doors of the basilicas of Rome, the beautiful churches, the countryside around Assisi, the gelato and the pasta and ...

NORTHFIELD — The bishop of the Roman Catholic ... Jubilee Year in Rome on Christmas Eve with the opening of the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica, the largest Catholic church in the world.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace ... Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the top Roman Catholic cleric in the ...

I had the great pleasure of participating in a grand welcome in the small central Kerala town of Changanassery for India’s newest Cardinal – and, at 51, the world’s youngest – George Jacob Koovakkad.