The Eucharist is not simply a cultural legacy. It is more than a moving performance or a beautiful ritual symbolizing ...

When Catholic Schools Week rolls around in late January, I literally go back to Catholic school. This week, I’m reporting on ...

It’s like a “Messiah” every Sunday. Classical music lovers gather each December for an annual ritual of music writ large, when an orchestra, choir and four vocal soloists fill a church or concert hall ...

This coming Advent, Catholics throughout the English-speaking world will begin using a new translation for the prayers that we say in the Mass. This new, third edition of the Roman Missal is the ...

Spanish Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu Farnos celebrates Mass at Our Lady of Reconciliation ... While not necessarily unprecedented in the Catholic Church, the decision to suppress all branches of ...

The imposition of hands is rightly recognized by the Catholic tradition as the origin ... 101 1291 A custom of the Roman Church facilitated the development of the Western practice: a double ...

As its public urged them on, the Cuban rebel army shot more than 200 men, summarily convicted in drumhead courts, as torturers and mass murderers ... himself a Roman Catholic but is also impressed ...

But you find that it was made compulsory for everybody to behave like a Roman Catholic, and because of my attitude and way of life, I speak Latin; the Irish Fathers loved me, and so they put me in ...

The Reformation split the Church into Catholic and Protestant factions ... When Lutheran books in Latin started to appear in Scotland, the radical message which they carried quickly made a ...

Much was retained from the Roman Catholic mass, though how much, exactly ... Inevitably, both sides disliked it. The abolition of Latin upset conventional English people, and there was too much ...