Category: Religion

April 18, 2025 17th-century Epitaphios, Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum, Russia. Wikipedia    On Holy Thursday evening, during the service of Matins for Holy Friday,… Read More

April 18, 2025 patriarchia.ru      Three Local Churches—Russian, Romanian, and Bulgarian—consecrated Chrism this year—one of the main signs autocephaly. The Churches began the long process… Read More

In a joyful moment after the rosary on St. Bernadette Soubirous’ feast day April 16 at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France,… Read More

A U.S. district judge this week permanently blocked the federal government from requiring some Catholic employers to accommodate abortions and in vitro fertilization (IVF) for… Read More

A British Catholic bishop has welcomed a ruling by the U.K. Supreme Court that a woman is defined solely by biological sex. Justice Patrick Hodge,… Read More

While he did not celebrate Mass or wash the feet of inmates, Pope Francis made his customary Holy Thursday visit to a detention facility, arriving… Read More

Acts 10:34, 37–43 / Ps. 118:1–2, 16–17, 22–23 / Col. 3:1–4 / Jn. 20:1–9 Jesus is nowhere visible. Yet today’s Gospel tells us that Peter… Read More

I will wager that most people reading this have no idea who St. Fiacre was and what he has in common with the Beatles. The… Read More

“When the images of earth cling too tightly to memory, when the call of happiness becomes too insistent, it happens that melancholy rises in man’s… Read More

U.S. Vice President JD Vance will be in Rome April 18 and has meetings planned with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and with Cardinal Pietro… Read More