before the altar from the beginning of Lent. The cloth – which hid the altar – was not removed until during the reading of the Passion on the Wednesday in Holy Week – at the words ...

Spain’s confraternities often make headlines in the foreign press as their Holy Week processions have become a tourist ...

Lent is the time before Easter during which the faithful abstain and fast in remembrance of the ultimate sacrifice Jesus made on Calvary. It is a 40-day time of preparation before Easter, the ...

A photo of newly elected Pope Leo XIV adorned a wall above one of the late Pope Francis in Chiclayo, Peru. Brazilian ...

This is a Holy Week unlike any in recent memory, says School of Theology and Minstry Professor Thomas Groome. “Holy Week remembers and celebrates the final week of Jesus' life on earth, beginning with ...

Gary Lineker, the former England soccer player and now a media celebrity, will step down from his role as a presenter for the BBC after facing criticism for reposting an Instagram story about ...

The image is, to say the least, striking: John Cleese, the eternal jester of Monty Python and star of Life of Brian, walks reverently through Andalusian alleyways as the camera lingers on crowned ...

Holy Thursday: 6 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper Good Friday (No 6 p.m. Mass); Noon Chaplet of Seven Sorrows; 1 p.m. Rosary (Sorrowful Mysteries); 1:45 p.m. Seven Last Words; 2:15 p.m. Stations ...