Easter brings eggs and pastels, but what’s the meaning behind the holiday — and the other springtime religious observances?

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

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 ...

24. "And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you ...

She sits in complete stillness, her head tilted, eyes closed, her lips parted. Her hands, fingers intertwined, rest gently ...

According to a La Croix survey, 16% of those being baptized this Easter say the Notre Dame fire sparked their faith journey.

The origins of the chalice can be traced back to the cups used during the Last Supper, the final meal shared by Jesus with his apostles ... symbol of the Christian faith and an essential element of ...

15 1220 If water springing up from the earth symbolizes life, the water of the sea is a symbol of death and so ... Christ gives this mission to his apostles: "Go therefore and make disciples ...

"For this reason the apostles confess Jesus to be the Word ... came to recognize and receive the Symbol of 381. The use of this formula in the Creed was gradually admitted into the Latin liturgy ...

In relation to the tide of obscene literature in our time, the churches should remind modern man of the inner meaning of the divine ... Always the apostles make this larger claim in depicting ...