Calling for prayers, the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference describes Gaza’s situation as “a humanitarian catastrophe." ...

New Crucifix – The parish has acquired a large out-door Crucifix from the Redemptorist Monastery in Esker, Co. Galway. To ...

Kevin Smith's Dogma, starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, is a film blending the sacred and profane to tell a very human ...

Using the heart as a powerful representation of the embodied core of human existence has biblical, and even pre-Christian roots. Pope Francis makes this exceedingly clear in what is in many ways a ...

Nik Jakobs, a Jewish cowboy with a finance degree and four daughters, isn’t your typical synagogue president. Then again, the ...

We are Slovak!” my grandfather would yell. Emphatically, my father would bellow back, “We are Rusyn!” And so it went, until ...

The musicologist Lawrence Kramer dates the “invention” of listening to the 18 th century, alongside the concept of the inner self. In his 2007 book Why Classical Music Still Matters, he writes, “All ...

Archbishop of Toronto Cardinal Francis Leo called on the faithful to honor the most Sacred Heart of Jesus throughout the month of June rather than “using symbols that are contrary to God’s divine ...

As I mentioned previously, I was invited to take part in the annual Feast of the Holy Christ of Miracles on St. Michael's Island in the Azores. This past weekend, I travelled for the events of the ...

Spirit Catholic Radio, an affiliate of EWTN Radio network, announced that it is kicking off the campaign in June to mark the ...

According to tradition, this litany, approved in 1899 for public recitation, originated at Marseilles, where devotion to the Sacred Heart ... one God, . . . Heart of Jesus, Son of the eternal ...

O sacred heart of Jesus, mercifully accept the prayer which I now make to you for help in the moment of my death, when at its approach all my senses shall fail me. When, therefore, O kind and ...