Top prize went to Bridie Farrissey, Freemount and Martin Fahy, Broadford. Ladies prize went to Delia Conroy and Eily Scott, ...

The beloved blessing of the throats on the feast of St. Blaise has outlasted empires, plagues and revolutions — proving that ...

Today is the feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas. He is one Catholic theologian, alongside St. Augustine of Hippo, who has continued to fascinate me. My admiration for them has grown so deep that I ...

Devotees celebrated across the country on the eve of the Feast of Sto. Niño today (Sunday). Dances in colorful costumes pounded the streets of Pandacan ...

Oral and folk tradition recounts that St. Brigid, whose feast day is celebrated in Ireland on Feb. 1, made a cross from rushes or reeds to explain Christianity to the faithful in much the same way ...

“Whoever loves lives, whoever hates dies,” the pope told pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square on Feb. 2, the feast of the Presentation of the Lord. The Holy Father also renewed his urgent ...

A man is in a serious but stable condition after he was hit by a car. Emergency services were called to St Dunstan’s Street in Canterbury at 10.44pm yesterday (January 31), following a collision ...

On January 30th, the Orthodox Church celebrates the Three Holy Hierarchs: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John ...

Twelve months later, the Pope decreed that the feast of Mary Help of Christians, be kept on the 24th of May. St. John Bosco (1815 - 1888) was a dynamic priest who founded the Salesian Order in the ...

No feast is complete without these musical instruments ... will also celebrate a special Esquipulas Mass at St. Peter’s. From New Mexico to Panama, and throughout Guatemala, nearly 300 churches are ...

The weekly event, labelled “Scran and scoff” (forces slang for a meal), is held at St Dunstan’s, Stepney. Twenty men came to the first Wednesday-lunchtime session last week. They are now encouraging ...

The Feast of Brigid, also known as Imbolc ... One folk tradition that continues in some homes on St. Brigid's Day (or Imbolc) is that of the Brigid's Bed. The girls and young unmarried women ...