The tradition dates as far back as 601 AD, when 64th leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Gregory cemented the Lent as ...

Palm Sunday marks the last Sunday before Easter, and signals the beginning of Holy Week, an important period of prayer and ...

Easter, the greatest festival of the Christian church, com­memorates the resurrection of Jesus. It is a movable feast; that is, it is not always held on the same date. In AD 325 the church council of ...

The mystery of that great day had every right to the honor of being prepared for by prayer and works ... the faithful for the great feast of the birth of Jesus Christ. The Greek Church still ...

Holy Week is the holiest week of the Greek Orthodox Church, symbolizing the passion, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

King St. Stephen, Blessed Queen Gisela, and their son, Crown Prince St. Emeric, model the great things that a family can ...

In the world of today, where evil appears to have been accepted as normal, where truth has become politicized, and justice is ...

For Christians, Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week, the days before Easter commemorating events in the last days of Jesus Christ’s life. The Scriptures say that on Palm Sunday, Jesus rode into ...

P alm Sunday has the stuff that makes children's church programs so fun: palm branches, singing and shouting, a donkey and ...

"The prayer of the Church venerates and honors the ... In 1675, within the octave of the feast of Corpus Christi, our Lord appeared to her and said: "Behold this heart which, not withstanding ...

Food is a big part of religious festivals. But what does a season that observes death and sacrifice taste like?