To mark the beginning of Lent, ashes will be distributed during all services that will be held at various times on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18, at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church, 1500 Brookdale ...
By the measure of salt and light, we all fail at times. The history of Christians is as much a history of valiant holiness ...
The story of Longinus is one of the most powerful tales of spiritual transformation in history. A Roman soldier, tasked with ...
A funeral Mass was celebrated for John L. Allen Jr. on Monday in Sant’Eugenio basilica in Rome. The legendary Vatican beat reporter and Church affairs analyst died Thursday, January 22, two days after ...
On Sept. 30, 2019 — the Memorial of St. Jerome, Bishop and Doctor of the Church — Pope Francis established that “the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time is to be devoted to the celebration, study and ...
At that time: Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a report about him went out through all the surrounding country. And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all. And ...
The linchpin truth proclaimed by the Christian Gospels—”the central fact of all history,” as 17th century Bishop Jacques Bossuet put it—is that Christ was crucified in Jerusalem, that he died on the ...
Last week, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a “special message” on immigration that was an unmistakable rebuke of the Trump administration and its cruel and punitive immigration ...
. . . Whether we understand it or not, we are people of the cross. And so this Sunday, we take time to acknowledge it, revere it, celebrate it, and for a good reason. We Christians don't see the cross ...
“Downton Abbey,” “Upstairs-Downstairs,” “Gosfield Park” and most recently the HBO series “The Gilded Age” all share a similar setting of the upper class and lower class structures of particular ...
Last Sunday, the church celebrated the Solemnity of Peter and Paul, Apostles. While tradition holds both to have found their fate as martyrs, Christians continue to see in them famous and steadfast ...