Steve Locke was a paragon of health and fitness, a career executive with the U.S. Olympic Committee who embraced athletics ...

But since the date of Easter changes every year, you might find yourself checking the calendar each time the weather warms up ...

The Paschal candle represents Christ ... and side. During the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday night the priest or deacon carries the candle in procession into the dark church.

Christians begin Lent, a 40-day period of preparation leading up to Easter—a tradition dating back to the early centuries of ...

Holy Week timeline traces the final days of Jesus on Earth, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. It starts with Jesus entering ...

Franciscan Father Joachim speaks with people visiting the gift store at Our Lady's Chapel in downtown New Bedford after delivering Ash Wednesday Mass. Ash Wednesday, also known as the Day of Ashes, ...

COMMENTARY: The coming of Lent suggests that the gift of one’s memory to God involves the constant purification of memory ...

After sunset, the Easter Vigil is often celebrated it is a a liturgical ... calendar and always occurs on the first Sunday after the Paschal Full Moon. The Paschal Full moon occurs on or after ...

An Ashton teen pleaded guilty Monday to first-degree murder, admitting he used a belt to strangle his girlfriend to death four months ago in the apartment they shared. David J. Sosa, who turned 18 on ...