The Mass in Midtown was held at full capacity despite the recent COVID-19 surge. Parishioners were required to wear masks, and some traditions, including the sign of peace handshake and sacramental ...

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine canceled in-person Christmas services on account of the Omicron variant, while St. Patrick’s Cathedral celebrated morning Mass as scheduled. “Out of an abundance ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Parishioners donned face masks as they filled the pews of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan Friday to celebrate another Christmas shrouded by the threat of COVID-19. In ...

A detail of a stained-glass window from St. Edward’s Church in Seattle shows Jesus, Mary and Joseph on their flight into Egypt. (Credit: CNS illustration/Crosiers) Listen MIAMI — If you go to ...

Hospital worker Houda Mokrani takes a selfie with her colleagues on christmas day in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at the la Timone hospital in Marseille, southern France, Friday, Dec. 25, 2021.

Rev. Gavin Badway, the rector at the Cathedral of St. Ignatius Loyola in Palm Beach Gardens, remembers Christmas Day Mass growing up in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. “When I was kid and I think back, ...

Pope Leo XIV will celebrate Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Day morning, Dec. 25 — a custom dating to the pontificate of St. John Paul II. The Vatican announced Tuesday Pope Leo’s Mass ...

The pews of the iconic St. Patrick’s Cathedral were filled throughout the day on Christmas. “It was beautiful. Very, very nice. Very glorious. Lots of people, lots of happy faces,” says Luai Mahjneh, ...

CHICAGO, Ill. — Outraged by a freewheeling Christmas Eve Mass, some Catholics are calling on Cardinal Blase Cupich to crack down on liturgical abuses in Novus Ordo Masses in the Archdiocese of Chicago ...

Christmas tree lit at St Peter's square with St Peter's basilica cupola in the background at The Vatican on December 9, 2023. Each year thousands of worshipers gather at St. Peter's Basilica at the ...

DARIEN — Police have arrested a Massachusetts man accused of jumping the counter at a local bank on Christmas Eve in 2021, making off with thousands of dollars, which authorities were able to trace ...