As we move into December, our minds and our activities are often focused on events that lead up to the celebration of ...

God loves it when we go out of our way to make time for him in prayer, especially when we feel completely drained or when we ...

Nina Shea appears on Humanize to discuss the suppression of the Catholic Church in Communist China. Enjoyed this podcast?

As we approach the much-beloved Christmas holiday, millions of people in the West celebrate Advent with a number of beautiful ...

Once upon a time, fasting was an expectation. Prayer, almsgiving (charity) and fasting were seen by the early church as naturally supporting and completing each other. They've been call ...

With 2,800 petitions and shawls so far, “it will take us until Easter to finish,” she said. The recently widowed Hunter, who is battling multiple sclerosis, told OSV News she has no intention of ...

The annual liturgical calendar reminds us of the cycle of seasons— Advent, Christmas, Easter, Lent ... is a parishioner of St. John Neumann Catholic Church, and former head of St. Gabriel's ...

The wind is mild, grass lush, sky grey. This is Chile’s Easter Island – but it could be the west coast of Ireland, except for these strange green conical volcanoes, hundreds of metres high.

Yet despite movement toward Catholic majority support of the GOP, the election results paint a picture of an American church more fractured than ever, according to analysts who spoke to the ...

I think of candle-lit Advent services or the drama of the Pascal candle during the Easter Vigil. Beautiful, yes, but the candlelight is almost never the only means of illumination. Back then ...

The 1662 Book of Common Prayer, still in use today, codified the liturgical practices and doctrines — replacing the Catholic ones — of the newly established church. It remains a “permanent ...