This Friday marks the day that Christians commemorate as the day Jesus was crucified on the cross, to rise again two days ...

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

Holy Week unfolds for Christians with dates that vary from year to year. The purpose for the days observed by the faithful ...

Christians around the world have been celebrating Holy Week since last Sunday, the commemoration of the last eight days of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, which is considered the mo ...

In the Philippines, the Catholic faithful commemorate this sacred week by praying, reflecting, by penitence, or by doing a panata. Among those practices is praying the Way of the Cross or Stations of ...

The Bible needs a visible, external authority guided by the Holy Spirit to define both the OT and NT Canons. This authority is the Magisterium of the Catholic Church. As St. Augustine writes ...

Preparations for popular, often daylong Lent and Holy Week processions are underway across Latin America — but not in ...

It all began with a startlingly frank question David Bates posed to a colleague at work one day.  “What religion are you and ...

The Lenten period is when Catholic observers fast — one ... Church faithful also partake in Lent. The Bible's New Testament narrates Holy Thursday as when Christ and his 13 disciples gather ...

A reverend father said that using Holy Ghost fire to destroy one's enemy was against the doctrine of the Bible and the teaching of Christ, He explained why.

Today Protestant and Catholic Christians disagree over ... visible teaching authority that is guided by the Holy Spirit. Even the Bible points to the importance of the Church for teaching the ...

While Easter eggs and bunnies aren't specifically mentioned in the Bible ... Friday, Holy Friday, Great Friday, and Good Friday of the Passion of the Lord. The Lenten period is when Catholic ...