In Holy Week, the days just before Easter, one can catch Catholics in some ancient religious practices – some are so rare, they’re done only once a year. Beginning Palm Sunday – March 28 ...

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.

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.

In the Catholic Church, those ages 18 - 59 must fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday (Canon 97). On such days, those fasting may eat one full meal, as well as two smaller meals, sufficient to ...

David Kim, a Catholic altar server, and his girlfriend, Savannah Nichols, walk on the Princeton University campus after attending a Mass at the school's chapel in Princeton, N.J., on Friday, May ...

David Kim, a Catholic altar server, and his girlfriend, Savannah Nichols, walk on the Princeton University campus after attending a Mass at the school's chapel in Princeton, N.J., on Friday, May ...

David Kim, a Catholic altar server, and his girlfriend, Savannah Nichols, walk on the Princeton University campus after attending a Mass at the school's chapel in Princeton, N.J., on Friday, May ...

“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 ...

David Kim, a Catholic altar server, stands for a portrait before a Mass at the Princeton University chapel in Princeton, N.J., on Friday, May 16, 2025. Luis Andres Henao/AP.

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 ...