JERUSALEM — Hope, the theme chosen by Pope Francis for Jubilee 2025, is in short supply in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza right now, but is needed more than ever, local Catholic leaders say. While few ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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.