One of the all-time greatest devotions in Holy Week in general and the Triduum in particular. The Altar of Repose in Manila Cathedral, Holy Thursday 2014 (photo: Judgefloro / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY ...

This is the 11th year that the event One Night and Seven Churches will take place in Buffalo. The event has become a real eye opener into the world of our local church stock – the troubles that they ...

The saint, whose feast day falls on May 26, also realized that Rome’s people were suffering from a spiritual sickness. Pilgrims pray in front of St. Peter's Basilica (photo: Hannah Brockhaus/CNA / ...

For decades, the custom existed mostly only in memory. On Holy Thursday, parents and grandparents would recall, Catholics used to pray at seven churches. Holy Thursday is one of the most solemn nights ...

The Visitation to Seven Churches is a Holy Thursday devotion primarily practiced in Latin America, Italy, Poland, and the Philippines — though it is also practiced in many other places. The devotion ...

What would Buffalo be without its churches? I’m not just talking about the historic aspect, the family and neighborhood building elements, or even the religious angle, I’m talking about the glorious ...

Once a very important road in Asia Minor ran north along the Aegean coast from Ephesus into Smyrna and then to Pergamum. Another road that began at Pergamum ran southeast to Thyatira, farther south to ...

When St. Philip Neri came to Rome from Florence in 1533, he encountered a city in upheaval. The Sack of Rome six years prior had left famine and plague in its wake. The Protestant Reformation was in ...