tradition

Many families make a trek, sometimes several times annually, to celebrate the holidays together. Here’s some advice for how to pull off a holiday away from home with grace — and only a few frazzled nerves.

Celebrations come one after another during the Advent season. Many Hispanic families and parish communities live this time of preparation for the birth of Jesus with different traditions, always united in faith.

As dioceses across the United States continue to consolidate parishes, the changing landscape will prompt questions of worship. There are people who struggle with the current liturgy as practiced in their parishes.

What would we see in the early texts of the church fathers? What would we see as we gazed through the window provided by archaeology of early Christian sites? We would see many familiar sights and sounds, fragrances and gestures.

Following his usual practice of speaking about a trip, Pope Francis explains why he traveled close to 6,000 miles to Mongolia to visit a Catholic community of only 1,450 people.

By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — “It is very sad to see the church as if it were a parliament,” which […]

The ongoing reform of the Roman Curia is a necessary part of the Catholic Church’s fidelity to its mission to proclaim the Gospel, recognizing that very few countries today can be described as “Christian” and that new ways of evangelizing are necessary, Pope Francis said.

These two books have some limitations but are beautifully published volumes that have the challenge of sharing the traditions of the Catholic faith and why some other practices have emerged and continuted.