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On Palm Sunday, hundreds of priests, bishops, cardinals, and laypeople solemnly carried large palm branches in procession through St. Peter’s Square to begin the first liturgy of Holy Week.
Here is a list of the most popular questions about Palm Sunday and their answers.
St. Catherine was born near the beginning of the fourteenth century to parents Ulfo and St. Bridget of Sweden. At the age of seven, Catherine was sent to the Abbey at Risburgh by her parents and placed under the care of the abbess to receive an education and to build a foundation for her spiritual life.
Days after the Supreme Court of South Sudan acquitted Fr. John Mathiang on multiple counts, the South Sudanese Catholic Priest has said he is set to resume his Priestly ministry.
Catholic activists under their umbrella organization CitizenGo have organized a march around the streets of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, to shine a spotlight on policies that are harming the sanctity of life in the East African nation.
Bishop Henry Mchamungu has called upon Catholic school teachers in Tanzania to journey with their students in passing on good values, guided by the virtue of love.
Archbishop Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji of Nigeria’s Owerri Catholic Archdiocese has appealed for the release of Nnamdi Kanu, the separatist leader in Nigeria at the helm of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
The pope spoke of “the devious plans of those who seek to influence public opinion in an ideological manner, lying and disintegrating the social fabric.”
The Vatican and the German bishops have announced they will work together to resolve the controversial German Synodal Way.
A plenary indulgence is a grace granted by the Catholic Church through the merits of Jesus to remove temporal punishment due to sin.
Catholics in Latin America and throughout the world will celebrate the life and ministry of St. Turibius of Mogrovejo on March 23.
Dozens of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in Sierra Leone have completed a skills training program that Caritas Freetown designed to help the victims of abuse to get back on their feet.
The newly Consecrated Auxiliary Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Orlu in Nigeria has expressed his availability and readiness to serve the people of God after the example of Jesus Christ.
A Catholic Bishop in Kenya has encouraged devotion to St. Joseph, who he said overcame multiple crises by his trust in God.
Bishop Christian Carlassare of South Sudan’s Catholic Diocese of Rumbek has described St. Joseph as “a concrete man” that was in touch with the reality of his time.
Caritas Freetown, the development and humanitarian arm of the of the Catholic Archdiocese of Freetown in Sierra Leone has completed a training program that was designed to equip a section of the Sierra Leonean police with skills to handle cases of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) they are presented with.
Amid the violence racking the country, the Haitian Bishops’ Conference has issued an urgent call for an end to the widespread violence.
March 22 is the liturgical memorial of Saint Lea of Rome, a fourth-century widow who left her wealth behind, entered consecrated life, and attained great holiness through asceticism and prayer.