VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis devoted his Oct. 28 homily to the fact that Jesus prayed for his apostles and the people he encountered on earth, and he continues to intercede for us in heaven. When we ...

The faithful around the world celebrate Holy Saturday on April 8, 2023. Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday, is the day that some believe Jesus — his body in his tomb — descended into hell for ...

What happened on Christmas night more than 2,000 years ago fundamentally and irrevocably changed the path of humanity. “When peaceful stillness lay all over and the night was half spent, your Almighty ...

“An angel comforting Jesus before his arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane,” Carl Bloch, 1873 (Wikimedia Commons) “He knew. He had to have known.” A parishioner, recently returned from the Holy Land, ...

Christianity began with the appearance of an angel. In the gospel of Luke, Mary is told by the angel Gabriel she will conceive and bear a son and call him Jesus. Angelic messengers such as Gabriel ...