In the early 13th century, the church faithful were abstaining from receiving holy Communion. It wasn't that they were not ...

Since the sixth century, the Catholic Church has observed the Feast of the Holy Innocents on 28 December. The celebration stems from the Massacre of the Innocents, a Nativity narrative in the ...

On 28 December, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, churches across the region remembered children killed in war, particularly the 8,000 who have died in the Holy Land since October 2023. At an ...

Today the Church remembers the Holy Innocents, the children mentioned in the gospel of Matthew, chapter 2:16-18. When Herod realized that the wise men had tricked him, and were not returning to tell ...

Dec. 28, the Feast of the Holy Innocents or Childermas, commemorated King Herod's massacre of the male children of Bethlehem in an attempt to kill the boy he feared would replace him as King of ...

But it is a book to read, even if only briefly, on the Feast of the Holy Innocents, for it to coincide with the Gospel reading of the day that should resonate with a present-day context. Call it ...

the mock ordination of a "boy bishop" on the Feast of the Holy Innocents (Dec. 28) and the passing of local Church leadership to its sub-deacons on the Feast of the Circumcision (Jan. 1), better ...

Plays performed on the Feast of the Holy Innocents (Dec. 28) invariably commemorated the story of King Herod ordering the execution of all male children in Bethlehem under two years old.

Amid the festivities and rejoicing over the birth of Jesus Christ, we mark today the feast of the Holy Innocents. Scripture tells us that King Herod had learned from the magi about the birth of a ...

GRAND ISLAND — On Dec. 28, Catholics celebrate the Feast of the Holy Innocents, Martyrs, in remembrance of the children killed by King Herod in his quest to kill the newborn Jesus. A bilingual ...

December 28 is the Feast of the Holy Innocents, the babies of Bethlehem slaughtered by Herod in his attempt to kill a potential rival to the throne. And January 1, the eighth day of Christmas ...