While St. Patrick's Day is a loud celebration of Irish heritage around the country each year, the church that bears the saint ...

Catholic Church condemns illegal use of religious symbols for encroachment, supports removal of illegally erected cross on ...

The Macau Catholic Laity Association said it will release videos depicting the sufferings of Jesus Christ every Friday ...

While most commonly associated with the Roman Catholic Church, it is observed by many ... by fasting and receiving ashes in the shape of a cross on their forehead. Ash Wednesday also marks the ...

More than 450 catechumens took their next step into entering the Catholic Church at the Rite of Election, presided over by ...

The stational Mass and central ceremony of the distribution of ashes has long been celebrated, not at Saint Peter’s Basilica ...

The Edo State Police Command has announced the rescue of Rev. Father Philip Ekeli, who was kidnapped on March 3, 2025, at St ...

As the investigation continues into last month’s fire that consumed the historic Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church ...

“Actually, the manufactured ones stick better and are darker,” said Joan Duncan, director of faith formation at St. Barbara Roman Catholic Church in ... by receiving cross-shaped ashes on ...

Meanwhile, Pope Francis is the 266th pope to serve the Roman Catholic Church, and he assumed the papacy in 2013. He followed Pope Benedict XVI, who spearheaded the church from 2005 until he ...

ROME (AP) — Parishoners gathered inside St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church in Cleveland’s Tremont ... observant Catholics receive a sign of the cross in ashes on their foreheads, a gesture ...