On Palm Sunday, a week before Easter, the Catholic Church ... by decorations of greenery and flowers to suggest a garden. People stay for a time, adoring the wondrous sacrament that Jesus ...

St. Augustine calls this life the ‘Before Easter’ season — a time of labor, suffering and praise — preparing us for the ...

We live in a time of polarization in society and even in the church. Too many of us maintain a spirit of "I've thought about ...

On the World Day of Eastern Christians, a liturgy was celebrated at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on Sunday, May 25, presided ...

Easter Sunday: 6:45 a.m. sunrise prayer service; 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. full-length worship services. Easter Sunday: 8:30 a.m. worship service (fpclincoln.org/sunday ...

Ahead of Ascension Day tomorrow, we’re looking back at the key date in the Christian calendar and how we’ve marked it over ...

After blessing the faithful, he entered the chapel that houses the Marian icon, traditionally attributed to St. Luke, and, ...

On this second Sunday of Easter, the light of the Risen Lord shines ... disciples who saw and recognized the presence of the Risen Jesus who is still alive. Sometimes we think of Thomas as a ...

After Jesus' death, everything seemed to be ... In short, the great message of this Sunday is that the Risen Christ is always there, even if we don't see him and even if we don't often recognize ...

Fye, Anne Marie Amacher and Lindsay Steele The Catholic Messenger (Photo gallery at end of article) Jesus, present ...Read ...

Dorothy Irwin, a Roman Catholic theologian and archaeologist, has discovered several images of early church women dressed in priestly vestments and has found epitaphs describing them as church leaders ...