THE oil of the olive tree was both an ordinary household item and yet an extraordinary gift from Heaven, Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge said at Chrism Mass last night. He said olive oil might be ...

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The Catholic Church opposes assisted suicide and euthanasia, but it also doesn’t support treatments that prolong suffering in the face of unavoidable death. A scholar of global Catholicism ...

CAIRO, Egypt — Muslims around the world are bidding farewell to the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and will soon start celebrating the holiday of Eid al-Fitr. Eid is typically greeted with joy ...

Rama also urged his challengers to keep the campaign period peacefully. “Let’s have peace because when the mass had ended, that what it should be, let’s have peace…We just have to see what ...

The Holy Hour will begin at 11 a.m. Friday followed by noon Mass. Similar Holy Hours and Masses are planned in the neighboring Kansas dioceses of Wichita, Salina, and Dodge City. The planned Sat ...

Both the church and his family describe Carlo as an exceptionally devout but otherwise regular Italian boy, who is working miracles after his untimely death precisely by drawing youth to faith ...

Munther Isaac, a Palestinian pastor from Bethlehem, challenges Western churches’ response to the war in Gaza. He spoke to Tim Wyatt ...

From Auckland to Rome to St. Paul, communities around the world welcomed 2025 with light shows, ice plunges and, for Catholics, the start to a Holy Year ... a rare 11 p.m. Mass followed by ...