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 ...

After the high celebration of Christmas we enter into what is known as Ordinary Time, a time that is routine much like the cycle of our lives, a routine helps us to reflect on the high and low points ...

Crucifixes are unveiled after the Good Friday ceremonies and all other images just before the Easter vigil Mass on Holy Saturday. On Holy Thursday, the Catholic Church celebrates a special Mass of ...

Do we know why an Orthodox cross looks a bit different, or what the St. Peter, St. Benedict and St. Brigid crosses are?

Allentown Central Catholic plays Northwestern Lehigh during a District 11 3A quarterfinal-round game ...

Forbidden from worshipping their deities or participating in the 18th-century pre-Lenten masquerade balls ... anything that did not reflect the Roman Catholic traditions of the time was labeled ...

Liberty’s Gabe Green runs the ball against Bethlehem Catholic on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024, in an EPC football game at ...

This understanding that we needed to repent and reform was not confined to any particular religion: We Americans of all ...

The old-school McDonaldland characters make appearances every now and then, but since their inception there have been some ...

Armagh, 12 February 1918 - The Irish Convention and the dangers of evil literature were on the menu of the Lenten Pastorals delivered by members of the Irish catholic hierarchy at churches around the ...

Louis Monier/Gamma-Rapho, via Getty Images Fairy tales and Michel Houellebecq ... and his fervently Catholic sister, Cécile, one of Houellebecq’s few believably complex women, whose tenderness ...