For Catholics, New Year's Day isn't just the first day of the new year: It's a day of holy obligation. January 1 marks the Solemnity of Mary, a day the honors the role of Mary as the Mother of God ...

Fox News contributor and theologian Jonathan Morris discussed Pope Francis' remarks on President Donald Trump's deportation plan, calling the Holy Father's comments "out of line." ...

Many Eastern Orthodox churches are built to face east while all the church buildings of the Eastern Coptic church are ...

While it is not a holy day of obligation, it is a feast day celebrating the arrival of the Magi to see a newborn Jesus Christ. The last Sunday of Christmas on the Catholic liturgical calendar is ...

52 Sundays multiplied by 19 years equals 988. I am rapidly approaching my 20th birthday, so add a few for the past year—plus Holy Days of Obligation & all school-mandated mass in high school—I have ...

Did I curse or take a false oath? Did I use bad language? Did I miss Mass on a Sunday or a holy day of obligation through my own fault, without any serious reason? Did I fast and abstain on the ...

The obligation of observing ... fast as still being for forty days; and that St. Louis, two centuries later, kept it for that length of time; but as far as this holy king is concerned, it is ...

Unlike that of his only Catholic predecessor in the job, John F. Kennedy, Biden’s Catholicism, White said, “was embedded both ...

Rome’s traditional New Year’s Eve festivities marked the beginning of Pope Francis’ Holy Year ... Jan. 1 is a day of obligation for Catholics, marking the Solemnity of Mary.