The Roman Catholic Church uses incense for symbolic purposes to represent prayers rising to heaven along with offering atonement. There is no command in the Bible to use incense but Catholics ...

I heard music not played in church for 150 years last Sunday, between passages of Cranmer’s prose, all the while witnessing richly vested Catholic liturgy and being enveloped in incense.

Incense is used as a reminder and sign that ... In the funeral rite the priest will wear purple vestments. In the Catholic Church, purple is a sign of repentance and forgiveness of sins as well ...

The God I have come to know is expansive, and looks nothing like the vengeful, White-only projections of the alt-Right. Their ...

Eastern Christians have historically not shared the concern about the faithful not fully understanding the Real Presence.

In the stadium on Wednesday, Bishop Andrew Cozzens of Crookston, Minn., held the gold vessel, called a monstrance, aloft.

You realize you are here with Jesus and 50,000 of his friends. And because they’re his friends, they’re your friends, too. If ...

The sad reality of declining church attendance has led to further studies that have focused on the reason people leave the ...

They came in droves from across the U.S. for five days packed with inspiration, and on day four of the National Eucharistic Congress, Catholics took to the streets for a colorful eucharistic ...

The air was thick with incense and emotion among the faithful ... which comprises both St. Ladislaus Chapel and St. Florian Catholic Church. Archbishop Allen Vignernon came to the decision after ...

The light of the overcast evening was fading as pilgrims gathered for a Holy Hour of Eucharistic adoration on Tuesday at St. Peter’s Catholic Church ... golden censer, incense mixing with ...

WORCESTER ― Clergy at the Cathedral of Saint Paul were led by a processional cross, followed by candles and incense Wednesday ... bishop and to serve the Catholic Church. "My fervent prayer ...