The Season of Lent is a sacred time of forty days in which the Church calls every Christian to embark on a spiritual journey of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. It is a time of penance and preparation ...

The ring, which dates from the ninth or tenth century, has been unofficially likened to J.R.R. Tolkein's “one ring to rule ...

Have mercy on us. Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world. Have mercy on us. Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world. Have mercy on us.

V. Now let us pray to God as our Lord Jesus Christ taught us.Our Father, . . . After this, the minister shows the eucharistic bread to those present, saying: V. This is the Lamb of God who takes ...

As Pope Francis remains hospitalized in Rome, thousands of faithful from around the world have been gathering by St. Peter's ...

Mauro Borrelli, an Italian Catholic and former altar server, began to paint at age 7, instructed by a monk, and studied classical painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. His art design for ...

From the 1200s to the 1700s, the custom of Christian tattooing was prevalent in Europe among peasants, seafarers, soldiers ...

The Gospel reading presented to us for the First Sunday of Lent is rather familiar to all of us — Our Lord’s temptation in ...

Catherine Mowry LaCugna, who died in 1997 at only 44 years of age, brought new life to Trinitarian theology and inspired a generation of scholars.

Cardinal Wilton Gregory (at right), the retiring archbishop of Washington, dispenses ashes to Cardinal Robert McElroy, the ...