The short answer is, a Jubilee Year is a special year of grace and reconciliation. Today, the Catholic Church celebrates a ...

The unnamed woman had just given birth to a baby five days before. Her body was still wet as Yoruba say of mothers who newly ...

Pope Francis is bringing his Holy Year to Rome’s main prison. Francis traveled to Rebibbia prison on a frigid morning.

The faiths in our family include skepticism. But we have come to think of prayers not as a list of wishes hurled into the ...

Since October, Huval has been giving the album away through free CDs, downloads ... “Sing the Rosary,” the traditional Catholic prayer set to music, is a product of Huval’s growing ministry.

But what exactly does it mean to place the word “Catholic” before such terms as school, education, or teacher? In his new book What Makes Education Catholic: Spiritual Foundations (Orbis Books, 2021), ...

Jews began their eight-day-long festival of lights, called Hanukkah or Chanukah, on the evening of December 25, with prayers for the Israelis still held hostage by Hamas in Gaza. Mumbai's ...

the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. And behold, Elizabeth, your relative, has also conceived a son in ...

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Catholic opponents of the death penalty praised President Joe Biden's decision to commute the sentences of all but three of the 40 inmates on federal death row, a decision the White House said ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis, who has just turned 88 and has been suffering from a heavy cold, will lead the regular Sunday Angelus prayer from inside his residence ... overlooking St. Peter’s ...

Chennai, Dec 26 (PTI) Offering milk and flowers to the sea, silent processions and prayers along Tamil Nadu’s lengthy coastline on Thursday marked 20 years since the massive Tsunami struck the state ...