Friday consecrated a new Catholic church at Bethany Beyond the Jordan on the banks of the Jordan River officially recognized by the church as the site where John the Baptist baptized Jesus.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Some 1.8 million mostly barefoot Catholic worshippers marched Thursday in an annual procession in the Philippines that venerates a centuries-old black statue of Jesus.

NORWALK, Ohio (WJW) — The Nativity scene in front of Saint Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Norwalk ... on Jan. 3 to report statues of baby Jesus and the manger had been stolen.

COMMENTARY: The wrongly imprisoned, like Cardinal George Pell, the Carmelite martyrs and Jimmy Lai, use the arts to raise their hearts to God, offering a certain interior freedom, even contact ...

TORONTO - Ontario has appointed a reviewer to look into expenses at the Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School ... Italy to buy $100,000 worth of art in July. Education Minister Jill ...

Christ's Baptism 1223 All the Old Covenant prefigurations find their fulfillment in Christ Jesus. He begins his ... not yet in full communion with the Catholic Church: "For men who believe in ...

"The prayer of the Church venerates and honors the Heart of Jesus . . . which, out of love for men, he allowed to be pierced by our sins." 2 Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is of great ...

SAN DIEGO (KUSI) — Out at Cathedral Catholic resides a hardworking goalie, Maria O’Brien. Maria now in her 4th year starting for the Lady Dons Soccer team, but when she’s not impressing on ...

Such Christmas candles are hallmarks of Christmas in Ireland, still fundamentally a Catholic season ... Christmas in the 25 years since. The Baby Jesus was not placed in the crib until Christmas ...

Father Emmanuel Torres, associate pastor at Christ the King Church in Little Rock, uses art as a form of prayer and comfort.