Deacon Greg Kandra provides a reflection on the readings and Gospel for the Presentation of the Lord, Feb. 2, 2025.

Every Sunday is a holy day of obligation because it is a commemoration of the death and resurrection of the Lord. The ...

President Trump made a triumphant return to the March for Life on Friday, addressing the nation’s largest anti-abortion demonstration via video.

However local emergency services in some regions cancelled events, saying it was too hazardous for worshippers to cut bathing holes in icy ponds and riversView on euronews ...

Military medic Natalya carried a jug of water blessed by priests at the Sviatogirsk monastery in east Ukraine as she celebrated Orthodox Epiphany in a Russian-affiliated church, despite the war.

Indeed, even after the 12 days leading up to Epiphany and the final day of ... The Rev. Jonathan Sorensen is pastor of St. Patrick Catholic Church in North Platte. Area ministers who would like ...

Epiphany 2025 celebrates gourmet chic with "galettes à la mode", the fruit of original collaborations between fashion brands and Parisian bakeries and patisseries. Make this tradition trendy by ...

The story of Simeon's recognition of the Lord continues the theme of manifestation that is seen at Epiphany and the Baptism of the Lord ... (Luke, 2:34-35) When this feast was later adopted in the ...

Indulgences are pardons believed to eliminate earthly suffering or time in purgatory — where the Catholic Church teaches that people who have confessed their sins are purified before entering ...

In his usual Sunday Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square, on the occasion of the feast of the Baptism of the Lord which, according to the liturgical calendar currently in force in the Catholic Church ...

Laura is an award-winning columnist for Catholic News Service, and her nationally syndicated “Faith at Home” column runs monthly in Catholic newspapers across the U.S. Laura speaks nationally on ...

In the latter, it stands third in a series of epiphanies of the Lord. The first was to the Gentiles. The second — his baptism — was God’s epiphany to his Son ... the relationship between Christ and ...