An apse in the Dwan Light Sanctuary in Montezuma, New Mexico (all photos by Angie Rizzo) MONTEZUMA, New Mexico — In the 1990s, Virginia Dwan conceived of the Dwan Light Sanctuary, a secular space for ...

The Visitation to Seven Churches is a Holy Thursday devotion primarily practiced in Latin America, Italy, Poland, and the Philippines — though it is also practiced in many other places. The devotion ...

When we think of the Passion of our Lord or make the Stations of the Cross, one image that should come into our mind’s eye is the Sixth Station — St. Veronica wiping the face of Jesus to comfort him.

How do they do it? This question often comes to mind when I look at parents raising a child in today’s world. What an awesome responsibility they face every day, as parents entrusted with the ...

Speaking from the same Italian Alpine chalet where Pope John Paul II often stayed, Pope Benedict XVI recalled on Sunday the Church’s devotion to the Blessed Virgin of Mount Carmel and the devotion’s ...

Kim and Chuck Zurcher, of St. Columbkille Parish in Papillion, Neb., present Benita Habib, a member of St. Robert Bellarmine Parish in Omaha, an image of the Holy Face of Jesus Nov. 25, 2019. (Credit: ...

New Orleanian shares his appreciation for the Advocate with his local community. Above, Jacopo Vignali, Pentecost from 1648; below, Harry Connick Sr. prays the Rosary. (photo: Public domain and Harry ...

Through the years since the first U. S. Parish Mary Garden was planted at St. Joseph's Church in Woods Hole, on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in 1932, by Frances Crane Lillie, numerous Mary Gardens have ...

The poll to identify favourite Burns poems is a revealing commentary upon the values and priorities of our day ("Tam is top of the pops for fans of the Bard", The Herald, January 23). Yet one key ...

RELIGIOUS relics have played an important role in the spread of Catholicism. This is because individuals see them as a way to come closer to the saints and thus form a closer bond with God. On Nov. 12 ...