A man has caused minor damage at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after jumping onto the main altar and knocking over 19th ...

Ringing the handheld Sanctus bells during the consecration and elevation of the Host and chalice at Mass is a familiar sound ...

After decades of prolific artistic creation, a master santero is celebrating a first. Los Lunas-based santero Nicolas Otero, a longtime carving and painting saint-maker whose works include church ...

Nearly 30,000 soldiers and police officers flocked to Rome February 8-9 for the Jubilee of the Armed Forces, the second major ...

A Catholic perspective on ghost stories reveals why some apparitions may be souls in Purgatory — and why the Church urges us ...

Holy Saturday marks the end of the Lenten season on April 19, it is a time to mourn the death of Jesus and to prepare for his ...

In this divine sacrifice which is celebrated in the Mass, the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the ... of the Lord. 'The Catholic Church has always offered ...

The imposition of hands is rightly recognized by the Catholic tradition as the origin ... It is the bishop who, in the course of the Chrism Mass of Holy Thursday, consecrates the sacred chrism ...

NEWS FROM THE ISSUEOF MARCH 16, 2005 The Meeker County Board approved a moratorium of up to six months on shoreland residential development to give the Planning and Zoning Commission ...

Holy Spirit Church held the 36th annual Mass for the Preborn on Jan. 25. Parishioners from across the archdiocese gathered to ...

Forty Hispanic young adults in the Philadelphia Archdiocese are in the midst of a 15-month program in leadership development ...

The man tried to rip off the cloth, as well as kicking down antique candelabra worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.