"Forgive us our trespasses: grant us your peace" is Pope Francis' theme for the World Day of Peace, today, Jan. 1, 2025. His plea is for a year blessed by forgiveness — forgiveness between ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on Dec. 1, 2025. The original video can be viewed here. Three weeks ago today, the first worship service in more than five years was held in ...

The Blitz had halted briefly over Christmas 1940, but on the evening of Sunday 29 December the Luftwaffe resumed bombing an already hammered London. The whistling sounds of incendiaries were first ...

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Cardinal Blase Cupich addressed hundreds of people at Holy Name Cathedral at Midnight Mass. On the day Christians around the world celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, Cardinal Cupich spoke about ...

On Christmas Eve, two services were held in the late afternoon and early evening. A music vigil and a midnight mass were also scheduled. “Last year, I spoke to you in our building site clothes ...

For the first time in its 900-year history, girl choristers will sing at the Christmas Day carol service at London’s majestic St Paul’s Cathedral. Made up of both adult and child choristers, the choir ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Choristers of St Paul’s choir, including girls for first time in 900-year history, rehearse for the ...

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After a catastrophic fire five years ago, the Notre Dame Cathedral de Paris reopened this month looking almost the same as it did when it was first constructed in 1163. The massive reconstruction ...

Jacinta Jakovcevic was dismissed as musical director of St Mary's Cathedral Perth after more than two decades in the job. The church made her redundant following a review of its musical program.

Pope Francis on Saturday expressed his shock at the deadly attack at a Christmas market in eastern Germany that claimed five lives, including that of a child, and left more than 200 injured.