IF JERUSALEM is to remain, as many see it, the beating heart of Christianity, then it needs its lifeblood: its Christian ...

I began Holy Week in a Cairo mosque after a memorial service. Meeting my extended relatives, I thought about how a father's ...

Pope Leo XIV will begin his first full day as the new pontiff of the Catholic Church by celebrating Mass on Friday at the ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities – aptly titled The Holy Week – with Good Friday, Easter Sunday, ...

A few cardinals are seen as front-runners to succeed Pope Francis, yet many of the clerics who will vote have not made up ...

How surprising the election of the new Pope Leo XIV was, expectations of him, the role of the Pope in the modern Catholic ...

Pope Francis once quipped that his successor might take the name of John XXIV. Aveline is known for his folksy, easy-going nature, his readiness to crack jokes, and his ideological proximity to ...

At private dinners and at formal gatherings of cardinals, talk among church leaders of who will next lead the church has ...

The brief, rubber-stamp Conneaut School Board meeting April 17 was a farce. There was no reason this meeting couldn't have been done the week after it was held.

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert ...

The Chicago-born pontiff—the new spiritual leader of 1.3 billion Catholics and the proprietor in trust of the great art and ...

Except for the resurrection on Easter ... sundown- the Holy Thursday Liturgy takes place, marking the end of Lent and the beginning of the sacred "Triduum,” or three, of Holy Week.