Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Defying government ban, some Catholic devotees self-flagellate for Lent MANILA (Reuters) - Barefoot and with their backs bloodied ...

DEAR CAROLYN: I have gained an awful amount of weight in the past year. I am tall so I can carry some of it, but clearly not this much. My family is so critical about weight that I have canceled my ...

A new book about Pope John Paul II alleges that the pope engaged in self-flagellation in order to feel closer to God. Does Catholicism teach a proper way to whip yourself? No. The Catholic Church does ...

Father Alessandro Coniglio, who presided over the Mass, emphasized to CNA that “the mystery of the blood of Christ is at the heart of Holy Week. On Holy Wednesday, the friars of the Custody of the ...

Responding to acts of extreme corporal mortification during Holy Week, Catholic bishops in the Philippines have discouraged practices such as self-flagellation and crucifixion in favor of more ...

More than a hundred men in the Philippines may have contracted rabies after taking part in a self-flagellation ritual to mark Good Friday, doctors and local authorities said on Thursday. A health ...

An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man uses a belt to hit another during Malkot or Flagellation ritual to atone for his sins for the Yom Kippur in a synagogue in the town of Beit Shemesh, near Jerusalem, ahead ...