In the predawn darkness, all was quiet in the small house with white siding. His wife was already working her regular factory ...

When a minister of the Church brings Communion ... the family should prepare a table with a cloth and a lighted candle. All members of the household may receive Communion with the sick person ...

By Mollee Francisco  These are two birthday cakes you don’t want to stand too close to when all the candles are lit. Two of the town’s oldest organized churches celebrate 150 years in ...

“Inspiring” and “beautiful” does not capture the experience of the people who attend: somehow, the Vigil gives us a taste of great riches of the Catholic tradition - a taste for which most ...

Santa Semana – or Holy Week – in Spain is a big, BIG deal. Started in the 1600’s as a way for the “common folk” to understand ...

It’s apparition time: 5:40 p.m. In a small Roman Catholic ... church, psychological relief came rapidly. “The anxiety and depression were gone,” he told me. “You know when you’re ...

(AP) — With their sparkling embroideries and colorful sashes flapping in the frigid wind, hundreds of Guatemalan faithful flocked to the Catholic church ... centuries of candle smoke have ...

For lovers of architecture, Notre Dame Cathedral is an important site. It’s one of the best-known Gothic cathedrals in the ...

Prayers and candles ... brought down the wall after 28 years and led the way to re-unification on October 3, 1990. Germany's President Horst Koehler and Chancellor Angela Merkel attended an ecumenical ...

As a Catholic priest, the 44-year-old Zambian has held congregations ... “Instead people would burn candles and that led to house fires. I would hear stories of children, and even elders, dying [in ...

Bishop David Tencer, known for his Capuchin beard, talks about the diversity of the Catholic flock in Reykjavik and why the ...