Father Rob Clements got some interesting comments when he started leading Eucharistic processions at one of his parish assignments in the 1990s. “You’re a throwback.” “This isn’t the 1950s.” “It just ...

“Is there a hole in the bottom of your statue?” our friend asked as he gazed steadily at our family heirloom of Our Lady of Fatima. Upon examination, we found that there was indeed a hole — one that ...

Two St. Bernard Parish churches will mark Good Friday today with processions that have become traditions for their parishioners and guests. At 11 a.m., parishioners of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic ...

PROCIDA, Italy (AP) — Italy is known for the religious processions that take over towns big and small throughout the year when Catholic feast days are celebrated. But even in a country where public ...

As hundreds of Catholic pilgrims processed through the streets of Pittsburgh as part of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, some of the faithful saw the procession as an opportunity to evangelize ...

The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his “co-president” and wife, Rosario Murillo, in Nicaragua has banned, for the third consecutive year, street processions in the country, where the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Catholic penitent performs self-flagellation on the street on Good Friday. These acts of self-flagellation are a feature of ...

Pope Francis died at 88 years old after devoting the last 12 years of his life as the head of the Catholic Church. Catholic Churches around Tucson have planned special masses to honor his service, ...

Semana Santa, or Easter Holy Week is the most solemn religious week of the year. With schools, factories and businesses closed, it is for many a vacation week, and while beaches and mountains attract ...

Pope Pius XI pondered, ordered suspended recently elaborate preparations for the international congress of Catholic sport associations in Rome, because Roman Catholic processions had been jostled by ...