Holy Week leading up to Easter is regarded as the most spiritually significant week of the year in Christianity, containing many traditions and rituals. Here's what to know.

Because Catholics are obliged to attend Mass for Sundays and holy days of obligation, some have asked whether a Sunday evening Mass on Christmas Eve would fulfill both the obligation for a Sunday ...

This year, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, which is a holy day of obligation, falls on the Second Sunday of Advent. So, are Catholics obligated to go to Mass twice? The answer is yes ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Catholic churches across the country observed their first Sunday Mass since last week's devastating mass shooting at a Catholic parish in Minneapolis, which left two children ...

Holy Tuesday − Mass of Holy Chrism at 10:30 a.m., with Bishop David J. Bonnar as principal celebrant. Priests concelebrating in the sanctuary will include diocesan consultors and deans.

Pope Francis at Palm Sunday Mass 2024. | Vatican Media Pope Francis has a busy schedule for Holy Week.

Pope Francis makes brief remarks, visits faithful on Palm Sunday Pope Francis arrived at the end of Palm Sunday mass to wish pilgrims a "Happy Palm Sunday and Happy Holy Week" on April 13, 2025 ...

Easter Season 2024 comes to its climax this weekend, with special worship events in and out of churches on Saturday and Easter Sunday.

Sunday Mass at Corpus Christi-Epiphany Catholic Church in New Orleans. The church is in the city’s Seventh Ward, the same area where Pope Leo XIV’s ancestors are from.

Sunday Mass attendance in person at Catholic churches in the U.S. is back to pre-pandemic levels, although just under one quarter of the nation’s Catholics are in the pews on a regular weekly basis.

New Yorkers gathered at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and other churches across the city Sunday to mark Palm Sunday, the start of Holy Week. The holiday commemorates the arrival of Jesus into ...