On this Sunday's Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, the Church honors two saints who responded to the Lord's call to ...

The image of “footprints in the sand” is one of the most beloved in the Christian imagination. In the well-known poem of the same name, a person reflects on their ...

The heart is the symbol of the center and core of the person. It serves as an integrating vessel, unifying the person into a ...

Shifting Ascension Day and Epiphany to weekends would save hundreds of millions of euros, according to the Federation of ...

In each image, captivity, death, and slavery are all presented as defeated as they are paraded before the host of heaven in chains. This exhibition displays Jesus’ victory and glorifies the Father. In ...

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

Rev. Paul Nicholson, S.J., begins his homily for the Ascension with a striking image from Medieval art: Jesus’ feet dangling in the air, his body swallowed by clouds.

Eventually, it was understood that Jesus — as God — ascended on his own power to heaven and glory. The Ascension marked the end of the Lord’s visible ministry on earth. Jesus had to ascend, as he told ...

The Responsorial Psalm presents the Ascension in terms familiar from the worship of the Jerusalem temple in the days of King Solomon: “God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for ...

“I’m excited to have come to pray in the actual place of the Ascension... I want to be closer to God and Jesus,” 14 year-old Joelle Sammour told CNA.

Forty days after His resurrection on Easter Sunday, Jesus ascended into heaven. The Feast of the Ascension is observed 40 days after Easter each year. (iStock) ...