Founded by the late funeral director Robert Waltrip in 1992, The National Museum of Funeral History houses the history of the ...

The transfiguration prepares us for the passion, death and resurrection of the Lord. St. Luke’s telling of the event draws us into the mystery of divine love, a love that embraces human suffering and ...

Jason Wilson’s rite of passage for young Detroit men is helping them become spiritually, emotionally, and physically healthy.

Holy Week timeline traces the final days of Jesus on Earth, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. It starts with Jesus entering ...

ROME—Pope Francis said the Lenten journey reminds the Church that hope in Jesus Christ ultimately overcomes fears of fragility, weakness, and the brevity of life. Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, reading ...

Over a billion Catholics worldwide and a million in the Archdiocese of Atlanta ushered in the start of Lent while Pope Francis remained hospitalized in a precarious condition.

The season of Lent began on March 5 with a commemoration called Ash Wednesday. Lent is a period of 40 days when Christians prepare themselves for the arrival of Easter, which commemorates the ...

The Lenten ritual is six weeks of abstinence and fasting that emerged out of pagan practices. The word itself derived from ...

Christians typically celebrate Jesus’s resurrection each spring on Easter Sunday, participating in Easter traditions like ...

The Pope is continuing his medical treatment at Gemelli Hospital and was unable to attend the Mass held inside the Basilica ...

The day earned its name from the Christian tradition of seeking absolution before the start of Lent. Pancakes became ...

They hoped to force Jesus to take sides in a religious debate they had with the Pharisees regarding resurrection. Using a law about Levirite marriage given by Moses, the Sadducees spun a bizarre story ...