The holiday's date is determined by the spring equinox and full moon cycle. On the Gregorian calendar (the one we use), Easter is the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon, according to Catholic ...
San Rafael, the Spanish version of St. Raphael, is one of the area’s parishes named after the three archangels, which led to ...
The full title of the document — Exsul Familia Nazarethana, or “The Exiled Nazarene Family” — refers to Jesus, Mary and ...
Catholic Mass attendance in the US returns to pre-pandemic levels, with 24% of Catholics attending weekly, despite a dip ...
Doctors have prescribed “absolute rest” for Pope Francis to help him recover from a respiratory tract infection ...
That brings us to 2025, which will see a remarkable coincidence: Both the Eastern and Western will hold Easter on the same ...
In an inventive mash-up of Catholic Schools Week and the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope declared by Pope Francis, Our Lady of ...
Ringing the handheld Sanctus bells during the consecration and elevation of the Host and chalice at Mass is a familiar sound ...
They point out that soon before Christmas, the Tertiary Education ... These views happen to be on matters that are inherent to Catholic Church teaching. I have never criticised Joe de Bruyn ...
The Catholic Church in the western Indian state of Gujarat ... when we are attacked in villages and towns in several states on Christmas Day,” Christian leaders lamented.
The Catholic Church’s last ordinary Jubilee celebration ... following in Christ’s footsteps. On Christmas Eve 2024, Pope Francis inaugurated the current Jubilee by walking through the Holy ...
In his Christmas message, he offered special greetings to “our soldiers at the front,” to civilians and soldiers who have been wounded and to all those mourning the loss of loved ones.