The Holy Father will open the second of five Holy Doors for the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope in Rome’s Rebibbia prison on Dec.

The feast of All Saints probably originates from the Roman feast of Dedicatio Sanctae Mariae ad Martyres, which is the anniversary of the transformation of the Pantheon into a church dedicated to ...

The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Dec. 8) is a holy day in the U.S. because it is under this title that the Mother of the Lord is our patroness -- it is now always ...

ON October 28, the Church celebrates the feast of St Jude, also known as Thaddeus, one of Jesus’ 12 apostles. Historians ...

“When day came, he called his disciples to himself, and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named Apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, ...

The USCCB Committee for Religious Liberty prepared materials to help educate the faithful about this solemnity.

Swept aside by colonialism, this ancient tradition is being reclaimed by a new generation of Filipino chefs who are introducing it to the world. On an early Friday evening, customers slowly ...

Saint Demetrios (or Dimitrios) of Thessaloniki is one of the most popular Christian saints not only in Greece but across the ...

Lacombe resident Raymond Batiste has spent the past several weeks preparing for All Saints Day, tending to the family cemetery where his parents, sister and two brothers are buried. It’s ...

A new memoir is here: “Roman Year” recounts the strange ... Forget your Rome of serenaded feasts and romantic coin-tosses into fountains. Aciman, his mother, and younger brother must struggle ...

the feast of the Epiphany. The opening of the Holy Door in the Roman prison will be a “symbol of all the prisons scattered around the world,” according to Archbishop Rino Fisichella ...