Pope Leo XIV's recent public blessing and visit to Marian sites highlight the central role of Virgin Mary veneration in ...

In 1887, during a pilgrimage to Rome, Thérèse Martin — now known around the world as St. Thérèse of Lisieux — visited the ...

There, she prayed on her knees before a painting of the Virgin Mary, beseeching God for the grace to enter the Carmelite ...

Traditionally, the organ is silent from Holy Thursday until the Alleluia ... Christian and non-Christian. Veneration of the Cross Communion, or the 'Mass of the Pre-Sanctified.' ...

Fourth and fifth graders at Holy Cross School in South Bend presented a special project on Wednesday at the school’s “Stories and Sprinkles” celebration. Each student has spent the past ...

The pilgrimage, which starts May 18 in Indianapolis, will travel north in Illinois and then west across cross country, ending ...

In choosing his motto and coat of arms, Leo references the Order of St. Augustine, to which he belongs. He uses the identifying symbol of Augustine, a heart pierced by an arrow.

Spain’s confraternities often make headlines in the foreign press as their Holy Week processions have become a tourist ...

(Photo: Junno Arocho Esteves) Wednesday, April 23, the Holy Door of St. Peter’s closed ... emphasizing that the veneration of Francis’ body is nothing idolatrous. It is not, he explains ...

in the name of Jesus Christ... hoist this emblem of the holy cross on which His person was crucified and whereon He gave His life for the ransom and remedy of all the human race...on this day of ...

The veneration of Virgin Mary is central to Catholics, from popes to the ordinary faithful. Pope Leo XIV closed the first ...