Many Catholic parishes will give their parishioners a piece of chalk, a small bottle of holy water, and the words for the ...

Cardinal James Harvey, a native of Milwaukee, opened the Holy Door at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday.

The holy door at Saint Paul's Outside the Walls was opened on Sunday by the Rome basilica's archpriest, Cardinal James Michael Harvey. It is the fifth and final holy door to be opened in the Italian ...

Opening the Holy Door at St. Mary Major, Cardinal Rolando Makrickas prayed that the world would entrust itself to Mary, "the ...

"Let us offer our prayer to the Father so that, like Mary, we may be pilgrims of hope who bring Christ into the world." ...

Then she stepped out the back door. "She goes, 'I walked into the yard ... But it's what keeps them decorating their Spokane Valley yard with them faithfully from the start of the Advent season Dec. 1 ...

The excitement and cheer that typically descends on the West Bank during Christmas week were nowhere to be found.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In the quiet of Christmas Eve, Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica, launching ...

Pope Francis pushes open the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Dec. 24, inaugurating the Holy Year ...

The 88-year-old, who has been suffering from a cold in recent days, will at 7:00 pm (1800 GMT) open the "Holy Door" of St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, in front of 30,000 people and a live TV ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem prepared Tuesday to mark another somber Christmas in the traditional birthplace of ...

At the start of Christmas Eve Mass, Francis will push open the Holy Door on St. Peter's Basilica, which will stay open throughout the year to allow the estimated 32 million pilgrims projected to ...