In hundreds of parishes across the United States and elsewhere, growing numbers of Catholics are taking shifts before the Blessed Sacrament — which they believe is the presence of Christ, not just a ...

After rejecting the argument that the cross is a symbol of appeasing God’s wrath ... Tell that to every apostle-except John-who died proclaiming the gospel," Barron responded, continuing to ...

Late in his, St. John Paul II wrote of the importance of ... Today he leads St. Thomas the Apostle in a suburb of Miami, which had perpetual adoration for more than two decades and still hosts ...

15 1220 If water springing up from the earth symbolizes life, the water of the sea is a symbol of death and so ... after having himself baptized by St. John the Baptist in the Jordan.

The Greek Cypriot community of Sunshine commemorated the 70th anniversary of the EOKA liberation struggle (1955-1959) with a solemn ceremony on Sunday at the Church of Apostle Andrew on St ...

(OSV News) – Pope St. John Paul II could well be called the “apostle of life.” He spent his entire pontificate ... he stood on the Mall in Washington amid the symbols of U.S. institutional power and ...

Saint Patrick, also the national apostle of Ireland ... scholars believe the tale to be allegorical as serpents were seen as symbols of evil, and were likely a representation of what Patrick ...

The debate surrounding the display of the Ten Commandments in public spaces has become a symbol of a deeper and more insidious ... by God to those who believe in Christ. In the Gospel of John, Jesus ...