Cardinal Robert W. McElroy blesses more than 800 catechumens, candidates, godparents, sponsors, and family members catechumens and candidates who attended the March 16, 2025 Rite of Election and Call ...

The COVID-19 pandemic that killed millions worldwide is also blamed for a liturgical dispute that has shaken India's ...

More than 450 catechumens took their next step into entering the Catholic Church at the Rite of Election, presided over by Vicar General Bishop Mark O'Connell at the Cathedral of the Hol ...

William Barrett is hardly remembered in Catholic academic or literary circles, though his Catholic novels offer richly ...

In the chaos, journalists have struggled to confirm statistics about fatalities, while waves of social media videos claim to show crucified Christians, Alawites and other members of religious and ...

The Eastern rite Syro-Malabar Church Public Affairs Commission, in a March 12 statement, demanded a “high-level investigation ...

One morning in October of 2023, Miami police were called to remove a “squatter” who had, or so the ecclesiastical ...

The season of Lent for Western Catholics began on Ash Wednesday, March 5; for Eastern Rite Catholics, Lent began on Clean ...

A Catholic bishop in southern Indian Kerala state has accused its communists-led government of inaction after 12 people, ...

In early October, on what they thought to be a regular Sunday, a group of Catholic students rose early in the morning for ...

While the Latin rite typically confirms after the age of reason — usually defined as the age of 7 — Eastern rite Catholic ...

Lent is a penitential season in the church year leading up to Good Friday and Easter. Ashes, usually placed on the forehead as a sign of penitence, come from burned palm fronds Christians will get ...