Irish Catholic Bishops are calling on the faithful to dedicate tomorrow, Friday, June 6, as a day of prayer and fasting as part of their urgent appeal for peace and solidarity. The Irish Catholic ...

Altars are adorned in this colour, and priests also wear red vestments. During Pentecost, there are many baptisms, a tradition that comes from the fact that many converted to Christianity after ...

Christians in Cumbria and beyond will gather to mark Pentecost, and we’re looking back on the holy date and how we celebrated ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Blessed Iuliu Hossu, the Romanian Greek Catholic bishop of Cluj-Gherla, was named a cardinal “in pectore” — secretly — by St. Paul VI in 1969. But the bishop was in ...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — It was a weekend of celebration for members of Mount Calvary Pentecostal Church in Youngstown. The church hosted a 15/60 celebration for Bishop Shawn Tyson on Saturday ...

The Diocesan Priests Association, Makurdi Diocese has condemned the attack on the Priest in charge of St John’s Quasi Parish Jimba, Rev. Fr. Solomon Atongu as well as the coordinated violence ...

(Photo by Jerry Cornfield, Washington State Standard) Washington’s leading Catholic bishops filed a lawsuit Thursday contending the new state law requiring religious leaders to report child abuse or ...

(Photo by Jerry Cornfield, Washington State Standard) Washington’s leading Catholic bishops filed a lawsuit Thursday contending the new state law requiring religious leaders to report child ...

What is visible is a skull dressed in a habit with vestments covering other parts of the body, not all of which is intact. The saint’s heart is kept in another part of the church, officials said.

Catholic bishops in Kenya are demanding a full investigation into the suspicious deaths of two priests within days of each other, calling the incidents deeply disturbing. While expressing condolences ...

Bishops from Washington’s three Catholic dioceses announced a lawsuit Thursday against the state, challenging a newly enacted law that compels priests to report suspected child abuse revealed during ...