After the Sign of the Cross at the beginning of Mass, the priest may choose to greet the people with the simple and familiar greeting “The Lord be with you.” He uses this same greeting before ...

Many worshipers will receive the marking of the cross in ash on their foreheads on Wednesday, meant to show that a person ...

The close-knit Catholic community in Belfast’s Ardoyne has been stunned by an alleged affair involving one of its priests, ...

The Holy Father's prognosis remains complex as he engages in Lenten traditions and Vatican duties during hospitalization.

A Catholic priest marks the forehead of a devotee with the symbol of a cross during a mass on Ash Wednesday at Santhome ...