During the Chrism Mass on Holy Thursday, Pope Francis delivered a heartfelt homily, calling on the faithful to pray for the joy of priests. Read by Cardinal Domenico Calcagno, the Pope's message ...

A look into why 'The Holy Bible' by the Manic Street Preachers isn't just their best album, but a perfect album, and what ...

The belief that Jesus died on the cross but rose three days later and ascended into heaven is the central tenet of ...

Mary the Mother of Jesus cuts a special place in the New Testament and, in fact, through the Redemption story in the entire ...

Pope Francis has designated 2025 a Jubilee year in the Catholic Church, and NJ travel agencies hope a fragile ceasefire in ...

The word Israel in Hebrew is יִשְׂרָאֵל.  It is formed from its root which has a meaning which most scholars think conveys ...

Finally we cannot use human reason alone to judge the Word of God ... editor's words, like the footnotes.) The Bible needs a visible, external authority guided by the Holy Spirit to define ...

The fourth servant song, Isaiah 52:13-53:12, is the most powerful reading I’ve encountered this Lent. It will be the first ...

Card Domenico Calcagno read the text of the homily of the Chrism Mass in St Peter's Basilica. In the afternoon, the ...

During these days before the annual Easter Holy Week, Christians around the world have been observing the Lenten Season. The word Lent, or Lenten, was originally an Old English term meaning length.

Today, April 17, is Maundy Thurday. It is a part of “Holy Week” observed by Roman Catholics around the world and in India, to ...

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