From Auckland to Rome to St. Paul, communities around the world welcomed 2025 with light shows, ice plunges and, for Catholics, the start to a Holy Year. Rome’s traditional New Year’s Eve festivities ...

Bella Vista Community Church, 75 E. Lancashire Blvd., Bella Vista, holds services at 10 a.m. each Sunday, during which there is a Kid's Connect for children, as well as a nursery. The community is ...

On the solemnity of Pentecost, Pope Francis urged Catholics to invoke the Holy Spirit daily to bring harmony to a divided world, a polarized Church, and to broken hearts. Speaking in St. Peter’s ...

Pope Francis will continue his custom of celebrating Holy Thursday Mass in a prison during Holy Week 2024, the Vatican said. In a statement released March 6, the Vatican announced that the pope will ...

Pope Francis opens the Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Dec. 24, 2024. (Credit: Remo Casilli/AP.) Listen On his wheelchair, Pope Francis began the celebration of Christmas by opening ...