On the basis of age-old custom, water is one of the signs that the Church often uses in blessing the faithful. Holy water reminds the faithful of Christ, who is given to us as the supreme divine ...

of Holy Week. These days are the three holiest days in the Catholic Church. This Mass stresses the importance Jesus puts on the humility of service, and the need for cleansing with water ...

Linda Kumar is hurting but hopeful.And though she has good reason to complain, the lifelong Catholic and St. Bernadette ...

Defending Indigenous communities' rights to land, water and food "is not only a ... a way to determine a common date for Easter, the Catholic Church would accept it. Artificial intelligence ...

Jane Macdougall is a freelance writer and former National Post columnist who lives in Vancouver. She writes The Bookless Club ...

While I continue to grieve for those whose lives have been forever changed by this catastrophe, friends and colleagues among ...

It’s apparition time: 5:40 p.m. In a small Roman Catholic chapel ... of the old Coptic Abu Serga church, built over a cave that is said to have been used by the Holy Family.

The full title of the document — Exsul Familia Nazarethana, or “The Exiled Nazarene Family” — refers to Jesus, Mary and ...

What it did not find time to do was to stop the abuse of children by Catholic priests. A church founded by a man who ...

It was fitted with the Triveni Sangam water-carrying test tube at the centre and shells from Prayagraj at the sides. Many people are bringing home holy water and sand from Triveni Sangam ...

Sunday mass at Oak Park church on Sunday commemorated Father Augustus Tolton, the first Black Catholic priest in the United States. He served in Chicago in the 1800s.