Church leaders in India have welcomed the Vatican's decision to add the feast of St. Teresa of Kolkata to the universal ...

Church leaders in India have welcomed the Vatican's decision to add the feast of St. Teresa of Kolkata to the universal ...

Here’s when Ash Wednesday, Lent, Good Friday and Easter 2025 are and why the dates they fall on change every year. Easter ...

VATICAN—Pope Francis onadded the September 5 feast of St. Teresa of Calcutta to the Catholic Church’s liturgical calendar as an optional memorial. The decree issued February 11 by the Vatican noted ...

The feast of the Chair has ancient origins. Some of the earliest complete Christian calendars date to the sixth century, and ...

This year it falls especially late on Tuesday, March 4, much later than in 2024 when it took place on February 13. The last ...

The holy month begins with the sighting of the crescent moon and ends with the sighting of the next new moon, marking the ...

then removed from the calendar by Pope Pius V in the mid 16th century. Pope Sixtus V later reestablished the feast in 1585, and it is still celebrated today, commemorating the faith of her parents ...

WITH Valentine’s Day out of the way, revellers have already set their sights on the next big celebration – Pancake Day.

The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on the Thursday before Easter Sunday. This year, Ash Wednesday and the ...

How a group of Florentine businessmen became the founders of an order that would span continents and centuries.

The country is currently indulging in Tsiknopempti, one of the most important dates on the calendar in Greece.