Saint John’s Episcopal Church on North 5th Avenue in Laurel will host Holy Week activities starting on Sunday, April 13, at 8 a.m. with Palm Sunday Mass. The liturgy of ...

All Holy Week liturgies will be live streamed on the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart’s YouTube channel.

As issues like abortion, assisted suicide and in-vitro fertilization continue to be widely discussed today, looking back on the prescient writing of St. John Paul II on such matters can help the faith ...

As the midday sun filtered through the colorful stained-glass windows depicting scenes from the Bible, including the ...

At the end of 2023, the number of Catholics in the world reached 1.405 billion, up 1.15% from 1.389 billion Catholics at the ...

Notre Dame’s OCIA program, the largest in University history, is guiding 55 students through the process of initiation into the Catholic Church this Easter.

Pope John Paul II, who later became St. John Paul II, blesses a baby during an annual baptism liturgy in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel Jan. 13, 2002. OSV News photo from Catholic Press Photo Pope St.

It’s our adoption into God’s family and the seal of our union with Christ. We don’t take it seriously enough. What is baptism? Is it necessary? Does it do anything? Who can receive it, and ...

Celebration of the liturgy is the primary faith-formational activity of the Catholic Church. In and through the liturgy, Catholics are brought into the Paschal Mystery of dying and rising with Christ ...

Every year, on the first Sunday in Lent, a group of people, known as Catechumens and their godparents come together to celebrate the ancient practice of the early church known as the Rite of Election.