This year's Lent is drawing to a close, with just over a week left. See the remaining days and why Christians observe the ...

Several Christian denominations celebrate Lent, with each having its own practices. Lent is the 40 days between Ash Wednesday ...

Holy Week is the most sacred and significant week in the Catholic calendar, culminating in the celebration of Easter. This year, Holy Week spans from Palm Sunday, April 13, to Easter Sunday, April 20, ...

As the Christian calendar moves closer to our Easter celebration, this Sunday we sing our hosannas to the King during our ...

Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill continues his four-week overview of the Bible's 66 books, focusing on Holy ...

Holy Week, the most important week for believers, is a time of great reverence and reflection. It is the most sacred period of the liturgical calendar. Holy Week spans the ...

A spokesman for St. Peter’s Basilica has said the ancient tradition of devotion to Veronica’s Veil and to the Holy Face of ...

The fourth servant song, Isaiah 52:13-53:12, is the most powerful reading I’ve encountered this Lent. It will be the first reading on Good Friday, and I’d encourage you to ask God for the grace of an ...

Lent is the time before Easter during which the faithful abstain and fast in remembrance of the ultimate sacrifice Jesus made on Calvary. It is a 40-day time of preparation before Easter ...

Former cardinal and laicized priest Theodore McCarrick has died. The exposure of his grave sins and crimes marked another ...