Republican staff photo by David Molnar Victor Anop (hand raised) announces outside the Mater Dolorosa Church that those holding the vigil inside the church will leave as the Vatican has ordered.

MANILA -- Near the buzz and rush around the famed Quiapo Church quietly stands a house that is trying to keep Holy Week traditions alive. The 111-year-old Bahay Nakpil-Bautista, once a shelter for ...

HOLYOKE – Those hoping for a Christmas truce in the battle between the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield and a group of disgruntled Mater Dolorosa parishioners fighting to reopen their ...

MANILA, Philippines — For Christa Ramos and her family, welcoming Mater Dolorosa into their home in Taguig City is more than just a tradition they have upheld for 123 years now. It is also ...

We are entering the Holy Week of Easter with a concert dedicated to the Stabat Mater sequence, a 13th-century Christian hymn to Mary, ... Stabat Mater dolorosa, ...

Holy Week marks “a time of grace that the Lord gives us so that we may open the doors of our hearts” and ... dressed in black and gold as the mourning Mater Dolorosa is always the last of the ...

Holy Week leading up to Easter is regarded as the most spiritually significant week of the year in Christianity, containing many traditions and rituals. Here's what to know.

MANILA, Philippines — “Prayer in motion.” This was how the Diocese of Kalibo described religious processions, especially the one for the Pasos, a procession of images in carrozas — ...