Each year on Aug. 5 the church liturgical calendar commemorates the dedication of St. Mary Major (in Italian, Santa Maria ...

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Area clergy will deliver messages of the power of the Resurrection, hope, love, truth and investing in one another in their Easter Sunday sermons. For Christians, Easter is the most ...

Easter, the greatest festival of the Christian church, com­memorates the resurrection of Jesus. It is a movable feast; that is, it is not always held on the same date. In AD 325 the church council of ...

Chicago Catholics gathered at an Easter Monday Mass in Pilsen to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and mourn the ...

The origin of the name of the town St Helens stretches back to a chapel which is dedicated to St Helen (Elyn), the earliest reference to which is in 1552. It is believed St Helen travelled to the Holy ...

It is precisely the Father’s mercy, which is greater than our limitations and calculations, that characterised the ...

They give the name of Ante-Feast of the Nativity to December 20, 21, 22, and 23; and although they say the Office of several saints on these four days, yet the mystery of the birth of Jesus ...

Hosted by a global order of drag nuns, the Easter event draws thousands to what some call sacrilege but its participants say ...

In the final stage of his earthly journey, Pope Francis Saturday was entombed in the papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major as a ...

Some Christians choose to have a feast on Holy Thursday to commemorate the Last Supper. Good Friday is celebrated on the Friday before Easter and marks the day Jesus ... one of the most ...