A school that fosters children’s lives of faith as well as gives them a truly Catholic education is a blessing.

when flowers are permitted on the altar, for this once during Advent. The spirit of penance during Advent is not the same as that for Lent and some joy is permitted. Gaudete means "rejoice" and ...

The liturgical feast of Mary celebrated by the Catholic church. January 3 Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus ... Christian Carnival Day on the eve of Ash Wednesday which begins Lent, a time of fasting ...

COMMENTARY: Liturgical vestments like copes, chasubles and dalmatics are part of the beauty of the liturgy, alongside church ...

Lent is the time before Easter during which ... Fasting is the act of doing with less. In the Catholic Church, those ages 18 - 59 must fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday (Canon 97).

In early January, Catholic news outlets released a reminder that Catholics are eligible for special indulgences this year. Indulgences are pardons believed to eliminate earthly suffering or time in ...

When Pope Francis permitted priests to bless same-sex couples in 2023, Burch argued the Pope created “massive confusion” that would “destroy” the Catholic Church’s teaching on human ...

9 February, Proper 1: Isaiah 6.1-8 (9-end); Psalm 138; 1 Corinthians 15.1-11; Luke 5.1-11 IN THIS Gospel, Simon responds to Jesus as he does, not because of a realisation at that moment (15.8), but ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB) - For the past two decades, Mary’s Heart has offered bibles, medals, statues, custom-made rosaries and more to Cenla. The store is owned by Tinsley Ducote, who converted to ...

These Carnival festivities can be traced back to pre-Lenten Catholic traditions: the customs were brought over to the Caribbean by European colonists in the 18th century, and after the abolition ...

When a new senior housing and care facility opened in Corcoran, its leaders wanted to make a concrete connection with the ...

Donald J. Waldie was born in 1948 in Lakewood, Calif., to Catholic parents who had moved to the area—then mostly empty fields—two years before. He attended Cal State Long Beach and UC Irvine.