The Holy Innocents ... slaughtered innocents as the patrons of children, babies, and foundlings. In particular, the USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities has set aside this feast day to ...

Dec. 28 was the Feast of the Holy Innocents. Three days after Christmas, the Church recalls those little boys of Bethlehem “two years of age and under” killed by the soldiers of Herod who ...

Yesterday was Holy Innocents Day, the feast of the children. When Herod learned about the birth of Christ, he ordered all children less than 2 years of age killed to make sure that Jesus did not ...

The truth is that traditionally, the Feast of the Holy Innocents was celebrated as the old equivalent of April Fool‚s Day. On that day, friends borrowed money and if you loaned it to them ...

Though the day of mourning remains among Catholics, during the middle ages, the commemoration was combined with a pagan rite known as the “Feast of ... celebrate the Holy Innocents Day, thus ...

“It always seemed to me the feast of the Holy Innocents is a natural to have a pro-life activity that would end the year on a Catholic feast day, the day of the Holy Innocents,” Prater ...

But you, you mothers of the Holy Innocents, you whose babies ... Or in the morning as your drowsy child greeted the day, rubbing the sleep from his eyes? Did the soldiers snatch your little ...

Find today’s readings here. Today is a hard feast day, the feast of the Holy Innocents. They are the first martyrs, whose blood became that terrible red carpet to lay before the coming king.

In the ‘Christmas Octave,’ the week-plus-one-day beginning Dec. 25 and ending ... remembered on the 26th and 27th, and the Feast of the Holy Innocents on the 28th (transferred this year ...

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 ...