On Palm Sunday, a week before Easter, the Catholic Church recalls Jesus ... (hunger cloth) before the altar from the beginning of Lent. The cloth – which hid the altar – was not removed ...

An irate hellraiser stormed the altar at a Long Island church during Sunday mass — toppling sacred, century-old relics and causing $10,000 worth of damages, authorities said. Aldo Hernandez ...

Trouble has been brewing in various parts of the Catholic Church in the United States over the increasing desire among traditionally minded Catholics to have altar rails in churches. The issue of ...

Lent is the time before Easter during which ... it is important that the Catholic would speak with a priest or spiritual director. Any act of penance that would seriously hinder one's health ...

PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — While other students might be in class or socializing at lunch, a group of young Catholics attends Mass every weekday at noon at the Princeton University Chapel. They sing ...

“I feel that people’s faith is so strong here,” student Logan Nelson said of the dedicated Catholic space where ... Nichols continued to pray near the altar, holding hands, kneeling or ...

“I feel that people’s faith is so strong here,” student Logan Nelson said of the dedicated Catholic space where ... Nichols continued to pray near the altar, holding hands, kneeling or ...