Each year in early spring, Christians across the globe celebrate their faith on Easter. Easter commemorates the resurrection ...

Holy Week timeline traces the final days of Jesus on Earth, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. It starts with Jesus entering ...

O God, Creator of heaven and earth: Grant that, as the crucified body of your dear Son was laid in the tomb and rested on this holy Sabbath, so we may await with him the coming of the third day ...

Pope Francis has been hospitalized since Feb. 14 with bilateral pneumonia, and it's making some question whether he'll step ...

Holy water is also removed from the fonts in churches on Good Friday and Holy Saturday in preparation for the blessing of the water at the Easter Vigil. This removal also corresponds to those days ...

Palm Sunday kicks off the aptly named Holy Week, which also includes Good Friday and Holy Saturday. When is Palm Sunday, exactly? It’s always one week before Easter. And while it may fly a bit ...

When: Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Where: Bethlehem Liberty High School Tickets: Must be purchased online at ...

I know that many children are praying for me; some of them came here today to Gemelli as a sign of closeness,’’ the pontiff ...

For the fourth Sunday in a row, the pope will not appear for his weekly noon blessing, though the Vatican planned to ...

Some 10 years later, children from St. Michael’s Parish, whose parents were ill or had died from deadly epidemics, were ...

Donald Trump's Department of Justice stunned numerous experts on Saturday with a request in a court that some said is without ...

While the pope did not appear from the 10th floor suite of windows, he acknowledged their presence in the traditional Sunday ...