A first Communion Mass at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church in Abbeville, Louisiana, was disrupted May 11 after a teenager attempted to enter the church with a rifle. Parishioners prevented the young ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – This year the Advance/SILive.com is documenting the sights from one of the shared milestones for young Roman Catholics: First Holy Communion. This past weekend we photographed ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — One hundred and sixteen children received the sacrament of First Holy Communion on Saturday morning in Our Lady Star of the Sea R.C. Church, Huguenot. Girls donned traditional ...

Q: If the church’s new year begins on the first Sunday of Advent, then why is the secular New Year’s Day (Jan. 1) a holy day ...

Holy Spirit Parish recently celebrated First Holy Communion at St. Mary’s Church in Mocanaqua. Seven young people from St. Adalbert’s Church in Glen Lyon and St. Martha’s Church in Fairmount Springs ...

Holy Thursday strides two liturgical seasons: Lent and the Paschal Triduum. The Paschal Triduum, the “Great Three Days,” begins (and Lent ends) with the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy ...

Father Ninian Doohan, 44, raised a chalice during a Mass celebrated 17,598 feet up from the Khumbu valley at Mount Everest Base Camp, using a hewn stone as his altar. Holy Mass offered for peace at ...

JIMENEZ, Misamis Occidental — At least a thousand parishioners of the Saint John the Baptist Catholic parish here showed up for the first Holy Mass celebrated inside this town’s century-old church ...

The Queen of the Holy Rosary in Overland Park will hold a special Blue Mass service at 11 a.m., where the community will gather in prayer and solidarity for local first responders. Blue Mass services ...

Before attending the Mass of the Holy Spirit, it had never occurred to me that a Mass, which is one of the most important rituals for the Catholic faith, could be inclusive and welcoming to all people ...

Christmas 2025 marks the very first Christmas Pope Leo will be serving as pontiff for the traditional holiday mass.