COMMENTARY: Today’s feast is directly linked to the jubilee years of 1975 and 2000, making its observance this jubilee year a ...

The festival is held every year, right before the June 13 feast of the church's patron, St. Anthony of Padua. Padua was a ...

The Feast of the ... within the Byzantine Catholic Church. It was introduced into the Roman Catholic Church in the 15th century by Pope Gregory XI, then removed from the calendar by Pope Pius ...

A celebration of a memorial generally means that prayers and readings specific to the day’s ... General Roman Calendar, it is now be celebrated by the entire Roman Catholic Church.

Pentecost Sunday is one of movable feasts in the Church calendar. This is because it depends on the date of Easter. In the Church calendar it falls seven Sundays or 50 days after Easter Sunday.

Pentecost is a movable feast because it is tied to the date of Easter, which is also a movable date. It is considered one of ...

Pope Leo XIV meets with participants in the Symposium “Nicaea and the Church of the Third Millennium: Towards ...

By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service The Council of Nicaea 1,700 years ago recognized that Christian unity had to be based ...

Christian unity will not be “primarily the fruit of our own efforts, nor will it be realized through any preconceived model ...

ROME — The Council of Nicaea 1,700 years ago recognized that Christian unity had to be based on a common faith and should be ...