While the priest plays the main role in its celebration, invaluable assistance is provided by the faithful – altar servers, ...

The Vatican's liturgy congregation issued a note Saturday encouraging Catholic parishes around the world to celebrate the Sunday of the Word of God with new vigor. In the note published Dec. 19, the ...

Here's a clip making the rounds of Catholic Twitter. It's the actor Shia LeBoeuf, who recently converted, or reverted, to the practice of Catholicism. In this interview with Bishop Robert Barron, ...

The psalms deserve a bit more, so before we go to the second reading next week, some more on the psalms. On Sundays, remember it is the second biblical text but not a reading in the Liturgy of the Wor ...

The second reading, which is the third biblical text assigned to each Sunday, is always from the New Testament. It is either ...

Having read the whole of Browning’s long and obscurely written poem Sordello, Thomas Carlyle claimed that he still couldn’t ...

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has chosen Catholic media companies Ascension and Word on Fire to publish the Liturgy of the Hours, Second Edition. The Liturgy of the Hours, also known ...

If there is ever a liturgy that looks less like a Sunday Mass, it’s the Easter Vigil. At the same time, such a perspective is misleading: the Easter (or Paschal) Vigil is the liturgy of the Church ...

(RNS) — To understand the Eucharist, we must remember that Jesus and his first disciples were all Jews. We might even say the first Christians were Jewish heretics because, unlike their fellow Jews, ...