Ringing the handheld Sanctus bells during the consecration and elevation of the Host and chalice at Mass is a familiar sound ...

In short, the feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple is a call to profound conversion, to purify our hearts and to ...

And so we’re incredibly grateful to those who are in consecrated life for their daily witness, and for saying “yes” to the ...

Msgr. Stephan Lipke received episcopal consecration as the new Auxiliary Bishop of the vast diocese of Novosibirsk. Born in Germany, a Jesuit by vocational choice, in Russia motivated by missionary ...

Today's feast marks the Presentation of the Lord Jesus in the Temple, 40 days after he was born. As the firstborn, he ...

Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin arrives prior to a Mass for the consecration of the church ... the very spot where Christ was baptized by St. John the Baptist in the Jordan River.

St. Mary’s Church of the Immaculate Conception in Wilkes-Barre had a final Mass with a full-throated choir accompanied by hand bells and rumbling timpani on Sunday.

Parolin’s meeting with the Middle East representatives comes days after his participation in the Jan. 10 consecration of the ... where Christ was baptized by St. John the Baptist in the Jordan ...

When I die, I want my remains to be cremated and my ashes to be scattered in the mall nearby.” When her children asked why, her response was: “So that you will be present and be with me at least once ...

BETHANY BEYOND THE JORDAN, Jordan (OSV News) — Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, told thousands of faithful that Pope Francis sent him to preside over the inauguration and ...

The Jubilee Year of Hope anthem in the Catholic Church of England and Wales is in reggae-pop style from Ooberfuse and the nuns of Walsingham, marking a change ...