Mozambique celebrates Family Day today (Christmas for Christians) in an unusual manner due to post-election violent protests that are preventing families and churches from gathering for their usual ...

It died more than eight years ago, but the centuries-old historic oak tree that once loomed over the Basking Ridge ...

The holiday season is filled with traditions, symbols and rituals that reflect centuries of history and cultural diversity.

Explore the lives of strong Catholic female saints whose faith and courage shaped the Church. From St. Joan of Arc to St.

Reception of holy Communion on the tongue has been a tradition of the Church for more than 15 centuries. It began, largely, as an effort to affirm that the Eucharist was not a symbol or a ritual ...

James Lord Pierpont It’s one of the very first Yuletide songs the youngest of children learn. The lyrics are easy and its music is peppy, making it the ideal holiday song for little kids.

For Catholics: As Catholics, we fully participate in the celebration of the Eucharist when we receive Holy Communion. In order to be properly disposed to receive communion, participants should not ...

More than 2,000 people gathered inside the Notre Dame Cathedral for the first time in Paris since a 2019 fire to take part in a Sunday Mass led by the archbishop.

Holy years also are a time when Catholics make pilgrimages to designated churches and shrines, recite special prayers, go to confession and receive Communion to receive a ... Pope Boniface VIII ...

PARIS (AP) — Notre Dame Cathedral, its air thick with the smell of incense, hosted its first Mass on Sunday since the ...