For the first time, I was drawn to the Stations not as a meditation on Jesus’ suffering but as a place to lay my own burden ...

People seek out pastors for a variety of reasons: marital troubles, concerns about congregational direction, absolution for sin, guidance for an important decision, and a search for a deeper spiritual ...

Lent is not just one more liturgical season. It is a time of abundant grace for a new conversion, when God is “purifying us by the sacred practice of penance,” as we pray at Mass during Lent. Most ...

Pope Francis prostrated himself in prayer during a solemn Good Friday service in St. Peter's Basilica to recall the crucifixion of Jesus. His quiet reflection came hours before he was due at the ...

Good Friday is a solemn Christian observance commemorating Jesus Christ's sacrifice, suffering, and death. Despite its somber ...

On this day, we start the most somber of weeks in the Catholic liturgical calendar. The state recognizes the importance of the Holy Week celebration to Filipino ...

In the Stations of the Cross, we walk with Jesus through his suffering step by step. Why do we do this? To an outsider it ...

Public or Private? It was not a question I expected to be asked during a six-week pilgrimage my husband and I made to Spain and Portugal. In Barcelona, I knew that I needed to get to a hospital when ...

EAST CHICAGO — Roman soldiers walked the streets of this city Friday, accompanying a falsely accused man to his grisly execution on a cross. The occasion was Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Parish’s ...

A Christian life should be filled with amazement — astonishment at the son of God suffering and dying for humanity and awe at realizing how precious and loved people are in his eyes, Pope Francis said ...