Six young people who lived with deep faith and committed their lives to the Church that Jesus founded are on their way to ...
Every year on March 17, the world turns a little greener—literally! From parades packed with leprechauns to rivers dyed ...
The Carmelite church at Whitefriar Street in Dublin is an unlikely but popular pilgrimage site for couples, who can venerate ...
Father Michael said Saint Valentine was one, very real person– or at least the man that the church honored with a feast was no legend. He said he did not know of the secret marriage ceremonies, but ...
Valentine's Day was originally a Christian feast day which was associated with Christian martyrs, with the most famous of ...
Valentine’s Day is one of the world’s most commercialised religious holidays – second only perhaps to Christmas. Originally ...
Historically speaking, there are multiple saints named Valentine or Valentinus - all of whom were martyred. The saint we're ...
From glow-in-the-dark rosary beads to St. Christopher dashboard statues and Pope Francis bobbleheads, a tribute to the complicated life of Catholic kitsch ...
According to one legend, Pope Gelasius wanted to put an end to the debauchery in the late fifth century. He declared Feb. 14 ...
Source: Could an Englishman be Zimbabwe’s first saint? Is Zimbabwe on its way to having its first Catholic saint? And might ...
It’s almost Valentine’s Day… Actually, it’s almost St. Valentine’s Day, but who is St. Valentine and why is he associated ...
The beloved blessing of the throats on the feast of St. Blaise has outlasted empires, plagues and revolutions — proving that ...