An ecclesiastical holy year is meant to have an influence, to give added meaning, to everything the Catholic Church does over ...

Pope Francis, the Catholic Church’s first Latin American pontiff, has died, the Vatican announced on April 21, 2025. He was ...

The Papal symbols of Pope Francis were removed on Wednesday at the Minor Basilica and Parish of St. Martin of Tours in Taal, ...

Do you prefer yours with sultanas and spices, or Vegemite and cheese? However you eat them, hot cross buns reflect centuries ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, called on Christians in the Holy Land to “hope against all hope” during a difficult time.

Mathew Schmalz, College of the Holy Cross (THE CONVERSATION) Pope Francis, the Catholic Church’s first ... God’s Love through meditating on the symbol of the Sacred Heart that depicts flames ...

For Christians, Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week, the days before Easter commemorating events in the last days of Jesus Christ’s life. The Scriptures say that on Palm Sunday, Jesus rode into ...

A giant Christian cross is set to go up in downtown Chicago just in time for the Easter holiday.

The Catholic Church opposes assisted suicide and ... unafraid to risk official censure or even death. Luce carries symbols that have been associated with pilgrimage in Europe since the 12th ...

The changes Francis brought to the papacy were more than skin deep. He opened the church to the outside world in ways no ...