The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) recently voted nearly unanimously to request that Mother Teresa's feast day be added to the General Roman Calendar as an optional memorial. It ...
This calendar is not an exhaustive list either of religious or cultural traditions or of the holidays observed in those traditions. If we have not included a religious tradition or major religious ...
The U.S. bishops’ annual Religious Freedom Week has a liturgical setting. Beginning on June 22, the feast of Sts. John Fisher and Thomas More, the week includes the Nativity of St. John the Baptist ...
With apologies to the Polish Catholics celebrating the feast of Our Lady of Częstochowa on Aug. 26: Blessings for the feast of Melchizedek. Yes, that Melchizedek, from Genesis 14 and Hebrews 7 and ...