Aside from the time of mourning, the month of November, including especially All Saints' day and All Souls' day, is a traditional time for visiting graves, as is the anniversary of death.

The Vigil of All Saints is an adaptation of this ancient practice, using the canonical office of Compline at the end. O Sacrum Convivium (”O Sacred Banquet”) - opening prayer said before all ...

Gary Hermesch, 66, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was taken into custody Thursday afternoon following the attack on Father Arul Carasala, 57, at the Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Seneca ...

Berks Catholic’s quest for a state title caps the first of three busy days of basketball in Hershey later this week. The Saints will play Devon Prep for the PIAA Class 4A boys championship on ...

In the seventh or eighth century, Samhain took on a second name: All Saints’ Day, or, in Middle English ... they would send up a prayer for that person’s lost loved ones.

The Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organization, hosted a rosary prayer at Saints Peter and Paul in honor of Carasala Thursday evening. Archbishop Naumann traveled to the church ...

"My mom's older siblings were all ... the Catholic Worker moment, according to Colt Anderson, a church historian and theologian at Fordham University in New York. Anderson said Dorothy Day ...

The miraculous recovery of an American baby boy who stopped breathing for 52 minutes after ­falling into a swimming pool is being credited by senior Catholic clergy to the intercession of the ...

The world awoke Monday to the news that Pope Francis died the day after Easter. The Lafayette diocese has addressed the Catholic faithful in its charge. Bishop Timothy L. Doherty published a statement ...

The tiny prayer ... Catholic Diocese of Hamilton, Msgr. Murray Kroetsch, said the book provides a good insight into how Christians, most especially members of religious institutes prayed each day ...