Our Liturgy of the Word for the Vigil of Pentecost begins by restating the Genesis myth of the Fall in a different context. This time, instead of an uppity couple ruining the tranquility of a garden, ...

If there is ever a liturgy that looks less like a Sunday Mass, it’s the Easter Vigil. At the same time, such a perspective is misleading: the Easter (or Paschal) Vigil is the liturgy of the Church ...

Although Pope Francis did not preside at the liturgy due to his ongoing recovery from a recent hospitalization for double pneumonia, he made a surprise appearance in the basilica about two hours ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Each year, on the night before Easter Sunday Rev. Michael Martine, pastor of Holy Rosary R.C. Church, leads the Easter Vigil into the South Beach church. The Easter Vigil, also ...