The feast of the Holy Family, celebrated this year on Dec. 29, is a beautiful way within the Christmas Octave to honor the ...

Wearing red vestments for the feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, Pope Francis knocked on the door of the church in Rome's Rebibbia prison complex and walked over its threshold. After ...

Christmas prayers are generally centered on acknowledging and celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, as well as giving glory ...

The annual challenge for clerics is to present a story listeners think they know everything about — the Son of God being born ...

Kerry McDowell replaces Tony Carter, who resigned after two years at the helm with the Eagles. He was most recently the ...

Religious Christmas quotes that remind us of the reason for the season Christmas is a holiday that brings so much joy and ...

Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) is the head of the Catholic Church and the bishop of Rome. This essay has been adapted ...

This generosity, this industriousness is in harmony with the Gospel, which invites us to do good to everyone ... The Sant’Egidio Catholic charity, the Federation of Evangelical Churches and ...

Meanwhile, a video by the Catholic News Service shows an interpreter at the event who translated the phrase as "every religion is a way to arrive at God." ...

also called on the country's diverse religious groups to "walk together in friendship and mutual respect for the good of the nation". Francis, as leader of the 1.4-billion-member Catholic Church ...