The special friendship with Mary that grew from all this, is what we seek to cultivate further, not least through today’s celebration of Vespers of the Blessed Virgin Mary. When Christians of ...

A decisive sign of these great things is given to us in the reading just proclaimed at these Vespers. The people ... peoples of sturdy and deep-rooted Catholic faith. Certainly your dioceses ...

BETTENDORF — On the eve of his ordination, Bishop-elect Dennis Walsh stopped by pew after pew, chatting and laughing with ...

Vespers was held in St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey on Tuesday 15 October. Messages from King Charles, Pope Francis, ...

Br. Aiden Sheridan, O.S.B., a junior monk and assistant to the director of oblates at Saint Vincent Seminary, will speak on ...

Pope Francis prays during a Eucharistic celebration in the Vatican, on the final day of a summit on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church From Australian country towns to schools in Ireland and ...

Ideas for parish mission and ministry, as featured in the Church Times. Host a memory café or a beer festival, experiment with jazz vespers or kick start children's ministry.

Tonight, at the Great Vespers that commences the sacred rites of Consecration, we bear with us the Precious and Holy Relics of Martyred Saints, which will be interred tomorrow inside the Holy Altar.

This is sometimes referred to as pre-measure tension. Psalm singing to chants is not unique to the Anglican tradition - Roman Catholic services also feature psalms. The main differences are the ...

When Emma Drozda from Colorado sent out her university applications, two of the eight schools she applied to were Catholic universities: Loyola Marymount University and the University of San Diego ...

From left: Dr John Borrelli (Georgetown); Archbishop Donald Bolen (RC co-chair); Bishop Robert Innes (Anglican co-chair); ...

The Catholic Church does not have the power to bless same-sex unions, the Vatican office responsible for doctrine has said. It is "impossible" for God to "bless sin", the Congregation for the ...