In the past, the obligation to attend Mass on a transferred holy day of obligation was not transferred along with the feast day when it fell on a Monday. A firefighter in Rome pays tribute to the ...

Just last year, Catholics were required to attend separate Masses two days in a row for the Sunday obligation and Monday's Christmas Mass. Now, they have a similar opportunity this year with the feast ...

Mosaic tiles depicting the Immaculate Conception and various saints are seen in the Trinity Dome at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. The feast of the ...

St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception celebrated its centennial with a special Mass on Sunday followed by a celebratory luncheon. “When you think about it 100 years of all the changes in the church ...

The high feast day of the Immaculate Conception is usually on the eighth of December. Every several years, however, the Second Sunday of Advent falls on the solemnity’s usual day, and so – showing the ...

In 1998, during a pilgrimage to venerate the Holy Shroud in Turin, Italy, our pilgrimage also went to Milan. Among the sites we visited was the Sanctuary of Maria Santissima Bambina – the miraculous ...

NEW ORLEANS – Immaculate Conception Church, 130 Baronne St., will celebrate the 150th anniversary of its first mass on Aug. 15. The day is also the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin ...

This stained glass window of “Mary the Virgin” has been a fixture in the sanctuary at St. Mary’s Church for decades. Mark Guydish Photo The oil painting of the Crucifixion with Mary the Sorrowful ...

Nearly six years ago, a parish started by black Catholics in the 1940s merged with a Catholic church founded by German settlers in the 1840s. Now, that Erie congregation will merge with a ...

A statue of Mary and the Christ Child is seen in 2017 at St. Rafael the Archangel Church in Quebradillas, Puerto Rico. (Credit: CNS photo/Bob Roller.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Just last year, Catholics were ...