The campaign, which begins on Feb. 8, the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita, is designated for prayer and awareness of human ...

Ash Wednesday falls on Wednesday, March 5 this year. In Western churches, Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a period ...

Q: Who was St. Valentine and why does the Church no longer observe his feast in its General Roman Calendar ...Read More ...

You might jab at the calendar and suggest the first of March. Or steeple your fingers and propose the vernal equinox, three ...

A listing of Black History Month events from parishes, schools, and national organizations around the country.

On Friday, 31 January, St John Bosco Arts College, Croxteth, celebrated the Feast Day of its patron saint, St John Bosco. The ...

The Feast of Black Nazarene is a yearly ... festivities that began on January 7. For three days, millions of faithful in this predominantly Catholic country gather to venerate a statue of Christ ...

When a holy day of obligation falls on a Sunday and so is transferred to another day, the Catholic faithful are encouraged to ...

St Brigid also founded the "church of the oak tree" - the Irish translation of which gave Kildare its name. Few contemporary ...

There’s one feast in the Catholic Church’s calendar which is not very well known. That is the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple which is celebrated every Feb. 2.

Need light to endure this long grey winter? North Americans observe "Groundhog Day" on Monday, February 2nd. The day when we ...

The countdown to the Orthodox Easter is set to begin on March 3, when Greece celebrates “Kathara Deftera,” Greek for “Clean ...