A volunteer at a County Durham charity has been invited by King Charles III to receive Maundy Monday this Easter.

Except for the resurrection on Easter, Holy Thursday is possibly ... At this Mass, the bishop washes the feet of twelve priests to symbolize Christ’s washing of his twelve Apostles, our first ...

Holy Saturday marks the end of the Lenten season on April 19, it is a time to mourn the death of Jesus and to prepare for his ...

Notably, he often chooses to wash the feet of prison inmates during Holy Thursday liturgies. And even before the Jubilee Year officially began, he once again called for the worldwide abolition of ...

In his newly released memoir, Hope, the story of the world that made Jorge Mario Bergoglio — and, by extension, the world ...

When I was in the other diocese [the archdiocese of Buenos Aires in Argentina], every Holy Thursday I went to wash the feet in a prison; I do it here too… The first year as pope, I went to ...

The Vatican expects more than 10,000 people from across the wider art and cultural environments — hailing from over 100 countries and five continents — to participate in events over the four days.

A charter fishing boat captain described rescuing two fighter jet pilots from the water after a Navy jet crashed into the San ...

The Eucharist is not simply a cultural legacy. It is more than a moving performance or a beautiful ritual symbolizing ...

They march like a sea of people, walking toward the spot where they take holy baths, drawn by the hope that the bathing ... religion — without which the pilgrimage is incomplete. “Wash away your sins ...

and spent Holy Thursday washing the feet of young inmates at a detention center outside Rome, instead of cleaning priests' feet (or delegating the washing) in Rome's ornate churches, as previous ...