"An Easter Prayer" “You bless the Earth and abundance flows in its pastures; grant that by your blessing our fields may yield the food we need. For this we pray.” – Catholic Household ...

How inestimable is the tenderness of Your Love! We pray You, Lord, to preserve Your servants in the peaceful enjoyment of this Easter happiness. We ask this through Jesus Christ Our Lord ...

Easter, the principal festival of the Christian church year, celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his Crucifixion. The origins of Easter date to the beginnings of ...

If it's your turn to say the Thanksgiving prayer, then we've got you covered. From Bible verses to poems, these Thanksgiving ... Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, A Book of Blessings ...

In his letter, the Holy Father expressed his closeness with those “who dwell in the lands of which the Scriptures speak most ...

Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry. From the prehistoric poems of the Nile ...

The Catholic Church cannot be credible in its mission ... Reciting the Angelus prayer with visitors in St. Peter's Square Aug. 15, the feast of the Assumption, the pope entrusted to Mary's care ...

Fr. Piotr Zelazko, who serves Israel’s Hebrew-speaking Catholic community, told Vatican News that his parishioners were also ...

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a ...

Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

One of my strongest poetry memories took place at a black-tie dinner at the Library of Congress where George W. Bush introduced his wife Laura with a poem. He explained that she had been away on a ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake had assured the Catholic Church that an impartial investigation into the Easter Sunday attacks would be conducted, according to Rev. Fr. Cyril Gamini Fernando, ...