If you are presiding at the liturgy on January 1, try this: Ask the assembly what we are celebrating today. Most people will look at you as if you just emerged from hibernation. Then, the person who ...

Christmas day has finally dawned. There’s been so much anticipation, so much hype, that it’s hard for one day to bear the weight of all the expectations. That’s pretty obvious as we look at gifts ...

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Solemnities: Celebrating a Tapestry of Divine Beauty. Catholics see the world as a marriage of the spiritual and material, not a divorce of these two ...

It’s a well-known origin story: how the young and wealthy Francis of Assisi freely abandoned his noble patrimony to serve Christ’s Church as a poor, itinerant preacher. One of the world’s most beloved ...

ALONE among national congregations in the Catholic Church, the Filipino faithful are allowed two celebrations related to Christmas: the nine-day early-morning or late-evening novena Masses before the ...

September is here, the month that is welcomed as the start of the BER months and with Christmas, the nativity of Jesus Christ, as the highlight of DecemBER. September 8 is an important date and ...

DETROIT – The Archdiocese of Detroit said all are invited to celebrate Christmas by joining them for the Midnight Mass for the Nativity of the Lord. The mass will be live streamed right here on ...

966 "Finally the Immaculate Virgin, preserved free from all stain of original sin, when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, and exalted by the ...

The following is the full text of Pope Francis' homily for the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord celebrated in St. Peter’s Basilica on Jan. 6, 2023. Like a rising star (cf. Num 24:17), Jesus comes ...

On my first Christmas as a priest, I was assigned one of the parish’s three simultaneous Vigil Masses for Christmas Eve. We had one in the church, one in the school gym and one in the chapel at the ...

Pope Francis gives the homily during Mass on the feast of the Epiphany in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Jan. 6, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) Below is the text of Pope Francis’ homily for the ...