For Catholics, New Year's Day isn't just the first day of the new year: It's a day of holy obligation.

The Christmas holiday is in the rearview mirror for most people. But there is one more occasion on the religious end of the ...

While it is not a holy day of obligation, it is a feast day celebrating ... calendar for the dioceses of the United States of America, it will take place on Jan. 5, 2025. Presbyterians celebrate ...

The following are the holy days celebrated and observed with obligation in the Archdiocese of Boston for 2025: -- Solemnity of Mary, the Most Holy Mother of God, Wednesday, Jan. 1. -- Solemnity of t ...

In the past, the obligation to attend Mass on a transferred holy day of obligation was not transferred along with the feast day when it fell on a Monday. A firefighter in Rome pays tribute to the ...

Archbishop Hartmayer of Atlanta expresses prayers and condolences to the family of President Jimmy Carter upon his Dec. 29 ...

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Throughout a year of conflict: religious inclusion, religious rights and religious diversity were defended around the world.

Then, on New Year’s Day — also a holy day of obligation, the Solemnity of Mary — the Holy Door at the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major outside the Vatican in Rome will be opened.

"He pursued the woman" but had no hold on her: the new Eve, "full of grace" of the Holy Spirit, is preserved from sin and the corruption of death (the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption of ...

The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary is a holy day of obligation that is celebrated each ... is the patroness of the United States of America. Although the ...