A butter lamb has taken center stage on my family’s Easter table for as long as I can remember. Each year at Easter, my ...

Manila (AsiaNews) – From the “journey of the Cross” to the votive pilgrimage that retraces the last hours of Jesus' earthly ...

An ecclesiastical holy year is meant to have an influence, to give added meaning, to everything the Catholic Church does over ...

James Gunn's upcoming film “Superman” is generating conversations about the place and relevance of this superhero who turned ...

Rome wasn’t built in a day. So the word goes. And Catholic Rome doesn’t move very far in a day, a year or even a lifetime. It’s why the famous Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, composed a ...

Holy Week has always been a time to reflect. And if you’re staying home, watching religious movies may inspire introspection.

Good Friday is usually greeted with puzzlement - is this a day to celebrate or mourn? We shall explore the historical, ...

Although the origin of the Spanish Holy Week is medieval, at the end of the 19th century white supremacists in the United ...

Through Baptism we are freed from sin and reborn as sons of God; we become members of Christ ... the water of the sea is a symbol of death and so can represent the mystery of the cross.

Grumpy Evelyn Waugh, for instance, wrote the Sword of Honour trilogy to explore how the protagonist, Guy Crouchback, from an old, recusant English Catholic ... it was a symbol that Catholicism ...

Millions of Filipinos around the world are Catholic, thanks to the Spanish colonizers who introduced the religion mainly as a ...

Catholic groups have criticized Spain's bishops for consenting to government redevelopment of a key national memorial complex near Madrid, amid fears of a continuing church decline acros ...