It’s Ash Wednesday, a day to mark the first day of Lent for many Christian groups including Catholics, Lutherans, and ...

Well, here is a taste of what is to come! Townsville’s preppies have given us their best funny faces. You can expect to find My First Year in the Townsville Bulletin newspaper in early April – before ...

The booklet claims that the Catholic Church dropped the "Second Commandment" which forbids "graven images", i.e. statues ... a statue of Jesus hanging on a cross, but as a reminder of the high ...

Editor's Note: University of Mary president Monsignor James Shea addressed the 20th annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast ... I hope that I can cross the border. I hope that I can see my ...

The cross placed on a worshiper’s forehead by a priest indicates that a person belongs to Jesus Christ and is grieving and mourning for their sins. A person speaks with a child after receiving ...

As a sociologist of religion and a Jesuit Catholic priest, I have long studied tattoos as ... soldiers and artisans as much as among nuns and monks. They were getting crosses, images of the Virgin ...

My dear friend Russell Contreras is the New Mexico-based justice and race reporter for Axios, a devout Catholic — and a ... he responds with texts of photos of La Santa Muerte, the skeletal ...

it is observed by the devotion to the Stations of the Cross, a collection of 14 images which are to be found in virtually all Catholic churches. The Way of Light (Via Lucis) celebrates the most ...

Today, on Ash Wednesday, many people nationwide are questioning what they'll give up for Lent, without truly understanding the meaning behind the holy day.

Young Catholics received the sacrament of confirmation conferred by Archbishop Nelson Pérez as he celebrated Mass Feb. 23 at ...