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Pope Leo XIV is starting a six-week vacation this weekend at the papal summer retreat south of Rome. It's his first break ...
Pope Leo XIV is marking a feast day as the Vatican launches a new campaign to boost donations from the faithful.
In attributing מועד and מקרא-קדש to Shabbat, Emor imbues this holy day not only with a temporal aspect but an unusual physical one, since Shabbat can be celebrated anywhere in the world.
Spain’s confraternities often make headlines in the foreign press as their Holy Week processions have become a tourist attraction, demonstrating the complex reality of their fame.
2025 Holy Week Photo Gallery: Photographer, John Thomson, has so many photos in his archive that he has put together a ‘Special Photo Gallery’ part two from his recent trip to France and Belgium for ...
Pope Francis, 88, died the day after Easter He spent his final days celebrating Holy Week Francis made public appearances on Holy Thursday, Easter Sunday Francis, the 266th head of the Catholic ...
Parishioners washed each other’s feet during the Maundy Thursday mass at Holy Cross church in Santa Cruz this week, as part of the observance of Holy Week leading up to Easter Sunday.
La Sagrada Familia Parish in Cleveland is continuing its tradition of creating alfombras de Semana Santa, symbolizing faith and sacrifice during Holy Week.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Thursday opened the most solemn period of Holy Week with a recovering Pope Francis largely on the sidelines, as cardinals were designated to take his place ...
Historically, antingeros would take blessed materials from churches during Holy Week (such as fragments of the Paschal candle or a brass bell), and those pieces would be used as anting-anting.