Europe's Royal Families travelled to St Peter's Square in Vatican City to attend Pope Leo XIV's historic inauguration mass on ...

COMMENTARY: Papal initiation homilies have long served as moments of clarity, not only inaugurating a pontificate but auguring its direction.

Beginning Palm Sunday, some churches cover or veil ... holy water is removed from the church’s fonts and the sacraments are not celebrated until the Easter vigil. Like the first Christians ...

1244 First Holy Communion . Having become a child of God clothed with the wedding garment, the neophyte is admitted "to the marriage supper of the Lamb" 44 and receives the food of the new life ...

This communion is also the path that connects us to our Creator and is found in many holy writings of many traditions. In the Christian scriptures, we read the parable of the vine and the branches.

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COMMENTARY: From the Psalms of Ascent to the Camino de Santiago, the journey of faith is a journey home — and this earth is ...

BALTIMORE — Umberto Rispoli took quite a path to make history. Rispoli became the first jockey from Italy to win a Triple Crown race Saturday, squeezing between horses around the top of the ...