The Great Aunt Who Held My Family Together
COMMENTARY: From a velvet chair, Great Aunt Wladyslawa reminded a crowded room of cousins and kin that family must be ‘nurtured like a plant,’ rooted in Catholic faith and shared tradition.
Results from Tag: 'catholic traditions'
‘Sanctified Sound’: The Return of Bell-Tower Bells Ringing at Eucharistic Consecration
Joyful pealing during Mass tells world, ‘We believe in Jesus Christ.’
Catholic Connection to Groundhog Day
If Candlemas be fair and bright, winter has another flight. If Candlemas brings clouds and rain, winter will not come again...
There’s a Price to Pay When the Church Dispenses With Its Traditions
COMMENTARY: The Vatican’s apparent openness to forgo some of its longstanding institutional privileges risks reducing the Church to the status of being merely another secular organization.
Pope Francis: Guarding ‘Dead Traditions’ is Dangerous for the Church’s Life
The Pope met at the Vatican with participants in a conference organized to evaluate the work accomplished so far by his Global Compact on Education and to plan for its development in the years to come.
Crowning Mary: A May Tradition
Most churches and schools try to hold the crowning on or near Mother’s Day because Our Lady is both Queen and Mother to all the faithful.
How the Big Easy Celebrates St. Joseph
The people of New Orleans take up a Catholic tradition that began in the Middle Ages.
Palliums Will Be Given to New Archbishops at Home, Not Rome
Since 1983, the pope has bestowed the pallium to new archbishops at the Vatican on the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul.
