As St. Mary’s Church of the Immaculate Conception — the oldest Catholic Church in Wilkes-Barre — holds its final mass on Jan. 12, the cemetery in Hanover Township will continue to bear the same name.

It opened with a celebratory but solemn Mass, on Dec. 29 ... to visit several Christian holy sites and to meet with senior officials from the Catholic Church in the Holy Land and from the tourism ...

The pope’s Thursday Mass ... to the Catholic Church’s Jubilee of Hope, symbolizing redemption and the possibility of new beginnings for the inmates. Pope Francis opens the Holy Door at Rome ...

At the start of Christmas Eve Mass ... Holy Year was called in 1300 and in recent times they are generally celebrated every ...

I had the great pleasure of participating in a grand welcome in the small central Kerala town of Changanassery for India’s ...

Callan, a renegade priest who was excommunicated in 1999 after he offered holy ... Mass and blessed same-sex unions — and who then helped establish an independent Catholic church that is ...

According to writeups of the visit in the Catholic press, Pizzaballa celebrated an early Christmas Mass, during which ... at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza. Turn on the sound to hear ...

Connecticut's Holy Land USA is a crumbling hodgepodge of biblical settings that was also the site of a grisly 2010 murder; a ...

KUWAIT CITY, Dec 25: In an atmosphere of love and peace, the Catholic Church – Holy Family Co ... and tolerance and that Palestine is the Holy Land, the land of coexistence and diversity.” During the ...

The Eucharist and the Cross are ... The Catholic Church has always offered and still offers to the sacrament of the Eucharist the cult of adoration, not only during Mass, but also outside of ...

Pope Francis has declared 2025 to be a Jubilee year for the Catholic Church. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Claire Giangravé from the Religion News Service about the tradition.

ROME — Pope Francis inaugurated his Holy Year at Rome’s main prison on Thursday, bringing a message of hope to inmates and involving them in the Catholic Church’s once every quarter-century ...