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St. Joseph’s Day can have its cake — and meat with it too
- Mar 6, 2021
St. Patrick’s Day has its corned beef and cabbage and St. Joseph’s Day has zeppoles — Italian cream-filled doughnuts.
Pope adds Martha, Mary and Lazarus, church doctors to universal calendar
- Feb 2, 2021
Recognizing their welcome of and witness to Christ, Pope Francis has approved changing the liturgical feast of St. Martha to include her sister and brother, Mary and Lazarus, on the church’s universal calendar of feast days.
Leap year’s extra day has a Catholic origin
- Feb 24, 2020
The extra day we get approximately once every four years is a way to adapt the calendar year to the astronomical year. But did you know the present system of calculating the leap years was designed around fixing the date of Easter?
Church, world need St. Joseph’s spiritual care in tough times, says priest
- Feb 23, 2020
One Catholic priest is urging individuals, couples, groups, schools, parishes, dioceses and the entire church to consecrate themselves to St. Joseph.
Want to add to hope, joy, reflection, healing? Then you can do Advent
- Nov 24, 2019
Compared to Christmas, Easter and Lent, Advent is the Maytag repairman of liturgical seasons. Hardly anybody calls on it.
St. Paul VI’s feast to be celebrated May 29
- Feb 6, 2019
The Vatican announced Wednesday that Pope St. Paul VI’s feast day will be celebrated annually on May 29 as an optional memorial.
Catholics get chance to celebrate, think about Mary with new feast day
- May 9, 2018
The Catholic Church doesn’t often add new celebrations to its pretty full liturgical calendar, but this year’s new feast day, Mary, Mother of the Church on May 21, has Catholics gearing up to mark the day or at least think a little more about Mary.
Thought Easter was last month? You’re only half-right
- May 1, 2016
The gap between the two celebrations reflects one of the oldest disputes between Eastern and Western Christianity, and efforts to get all denominations to agree on a common date today represent one of the front lines of the press for greater Christian unity.
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