People seek out pastors for a variety of reasons: marital troubles, concerns about congregational direction, absolution for sin, guidance for an important decision, and a search for a deeper spiritual ...

The term “Good” as applied to Good Friday is an Old English expression meaning holy. It’s often called Holy Friday also. But ...

Throughout Jesus’ ministry on Earth, he told people he was the Son of God. He demonstrated it with his words and his actions. He forgave sins and healed disease. He taught with authority and drove out ...

Lent is not just one more liturgical season. It is a time of abundant grace for a new conversion, when God is “purifying us by the sacred practice of penance,” as we pray at Mass during Lent. Most ...

"But we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles" (1 Corinthians 1:23). We repeat St. Paul's statement of faith at every Mass ...

Laetare is Latin for “rejoice,” and it comes from the entrance antiphon of today’s Mass: “Rejoice, O Jerusalem!” (Isaiah 60:10). We have crossed the halfway point of Lent, and the Church encourages us ...

EAST CHICAGO — Roman soldiers walked the streets of this city Friday, accompanying a falsely accused man to his grisly execution on a cross. The occasion was Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Parish’s ...

It’s a Homewood tradition that dates back more than 30 years, but it’s part of a larger tradition that dates back 2,000 years. The annual “Way of the Cross” procession on Oxmoor Road in Homewood on ...

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) on Tuesday said that the censure he faced earlier this year for controversial statements regarding white nationalism gave him a better understanding of the suffering of Jesus ...