CEBU CITY, Philippines — How does one make the most of Holy Week, Christianity’s most important period? The Church offers a wealth of sacraments, prayers, and devotions in which Catholics may ...

Father Lawrence Carney was ordained for the Diocese of Wichita, Kansas, on May 26, 2007. He is a street preacher, parish missionary and retreat and conference director, as well as being the director ...

When we think of the Passion of our Lord or make the Stations of the Cross, one image that should come into our mind’s eye is the Sixth Station — St. Veronica wiping the face of Jesus to comfort him.

Kim and Chuck Zurcher, of St. Columbkille Parish in Papillion, Neb., present Benita Habib, a member of St. Robert Bellarmine Parish in Omaha, an image of the Holy Face of Jesus Nov. 25, 2019. (Credit: ...

GREEN BAY (WLUK) -- This year, Bishop David Ricken and the Diocese of Green Bay resumed a Holy Thursday tradition that was put on hold due to COVID-19 in 2020: the Seven Churches Eucharistic ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) is urging Filipino families to refocus Holy Week on shared prayer and spiritual renewal, rather than treat it mainly as ...

This past week we celebrated 40 hours at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary. This is a wonderful time of the year for prayer and spiritual readings. This special devotion is a special forty-hour period of ...

This service follows the ancient text Stabat mater, entering into the grief of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the suffering and death of her son, with music by Giovanni Pergolesi interspersed with ...

Here are the latest news from the Philippines: the changes felt in the usual Holy Week observance of Filipinos this year due to the Middle East crisis; the government’s measures to ease the impact of ...