What’s the big deal with Catholics and the Virgin Mary? Do they worship her or just pray to her? What’s the Annunciation? What’s the Immaculate Conception? What’s the Assumption? Note: Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes.

Tour of Wonders tour with the Bleacher Brothers enjoys the home of the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals.

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The Nativity of John the Baptist on June 24 comes three months after the celebration on March 25 of the Annunciation, when the angel Gabriel told Mary that her cousin Elizabeth was in her sixth month of pregnancy, and six months before the Christmas celebration of the birth of Jesus. …

CNA Staff, Jun 21, 2020 / 06:01 am MT (CNA).- In a video message Thursday, Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix urged prayers for fathers ahead of Father’s Day, saying that fatherhood is the “mission of every man.” “In the time of the current pandemic and social unrest, in a society …

Father Earl K. Fernandes, a priest of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, is the Bishop-elect of the Diocese of Columbus. He is the son of immigrant parents from India and grew up in Toledo, OH, where he attended St. Thomas Aquinas Church. His parents were devout in their faith and passed …

This beautiful video of the Stations of the Cross in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.

Why do Catholics wave palms on Palm Sunday, wash each other’s feet on Holy Thursday, or kiss the cross on Good Friday?