In Jerusalem, the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land venerate the two stones that, according to Luke’s Gospel, were stained with Jesus’ blood during his passion.
Violence and persecution against minority Christians, who account for only 2.3% of India’s 1.41 billion people, have been on a steady rise in the last 10 years.
The Catholic Church in Kerala has been leading the charge in urging the government to take decisive action to protect human lives.
“Dear brothers and sisters, allow me to tell you once more that you are not alone. We will never leave you alone,” the pope wrote in his Holy Wednesday letter.
Trump announced the commemorative Bible offering on social media this week, saying he partnered with country singer Lee Greenwood on the initiative.
Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family, and Life, presided over the vigil on March 26 in St. Bartholomew on Tiber Island.
The Holy Father called attention to two men present at his general audience in the Paul VI Hall on Wednesday, one Palestinian, one Israeli.
Father Juan María Solana, LC, director of the Magdala Center in the Holy Land, offers four ways to live worthwhile Holy Week in 2024.
The devotion involves traveling to seven local churches after the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on the evening of Holy Thursday.
The name actually derives from the Gospel reading for today in which Judas Iscariot betrays Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.
While there were significantly more pro-abortion demonstrators present outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday, there were many pro-life doctors and students.
The archbishop of Santiago de Cuba, Dionisio Guillermo García, offered a lengthy prayer before the nation’s patroness, the Virgin of Charity of Cobre.