As Dec. 12, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, approaches, millions of pilgrims are converging on the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, one of the most visited Marian shrines in the world.
Guadalupe pilgrims flood Mexico City as U.S. parishes join hemisphere-wide celebration
What does World War I have to do with the solemnity of Christ the King, which marks a century this year?
The Solemnity of Christ the King is designed to give special recognition to the dominion Christ our Lord has over all aspects of our lives. But why and how did it come about? And why is it so important today?
Celebrating the gift of salvation all Christmas season long
In addition to Christmas Day, our church gives us not only the eight octave days following the Nativity, but much of January to allow our minds to grasp what has happened.
Why do we honor martyrs between Christmas and New Year’s Day?
Two martyrs — St. Stephen and St. Thomas Becket — and the Holy Infants who lost their lives to Herod’s vicious pursuit of Christ have feast days this week. What is the church trying to tell us by situating these particular feasts just after the joyful celebration of the Savior’s birth?
A walk through the Christmas season
The church’s liturgical season of Christmas is one of its shortest, but also one of its most unique. Within it is the eight-day celebration of the Lord’s Nativity as well as other feasts.
Doctrinal congregation adds saints, new prefaces to 1962 Roman Missal
The Vatican doctrinal office announced the optional use of seven eucharistic prefaces as well as the celebration of the feast days of recently canonized saints in the “extraordinary” form of the Mass.