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 ...

These days are the three holiest days in the Catholic Church ... After Holy Thursday, no Mass will be celebrated again in the Church until the Easter Vigil celebrates and proclaims the ...

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Nine years have passed since my husband became one of the faithful departed. The raging grief of the early years has subsided ...

The plight of Gaza was also a concern in New York, where police arrested three people who disrupted the Easter Vigil Mass at Manhattan’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Saturday. They held up a ...

Image Courtesy of Our Sunday Visitor By Anthony Curioso The Catholic University of America (CUA) offers five weekday Mass ...

The housemates want to live and grow together in Catholic ... Easter vigil or other liturgies, he said. Their patron’s Jan. 31 feast day is another big DBH celebration with friends that includes ...

Three months in, she began taking instruction, the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, and was received into the Catholic Church the next year, 2012, at the Easter Vigil Mass at Corpus Christi.

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It honors martyrs and saints — those who were hallowed, or deemed holy — a tradition begun by the Roman Catholic church in ...

Pope Francis has used his traditional Easter message to call for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and for the return of Israeli hostages held by Hamas. The 87-year-old pontiff led Easter Mass at the ...

It’s the time of year — tradition says — when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead is lifted.