Six well-known converts from Christianity’s earliest days to now March 27, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Easter, Feature, News, Saints, World News As Catholic converts around the world enter the Catholic Church during the Easter Vigil, here’s a look at well-known converts who have had a significant impact on the Catholic church.
Resurrection’s reality rooted in truth of empty tomb March 26, 2024By Carl E. Olson OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Easter When it comes to Jesus and the resurrection, the world offers a host of opinions, most of which dismiss and deny the possibility that “this man” was “raised on the third day” by God. But, as St. John Henry Newman pointed out, “No one is a martyr for a conclusion, no one is a martyr for an opinion; it is faith that makes martyrs.”
At Easter, the church offers us ways to celebrate fully our being reconciled with God March 24, 2024By Paul Senz OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Easter Easter is a time of pure and boundless joy. The Easter season lasts 50 days, from Easter Sunday until Pentecost. The joy that comes from the Resurrection cannot be contained in a single day.
A Holy Week FAQ: Why the ‘Passion’? What’s Tenebrae? And why does Easter’s date change? March 20, 2024By Lorene Hanley Duquin OSV News Filed Under: Easter, Feature, Lent, News, World News A quick FAQ guide to Catholics’ Holy Week vocabulary and key history.
New Catholic ‘radiates Christ’s love’ to all, says parish priest; hundreds join church at Easter Vigil April 16, 2023By Melanie Sisinni OSV News Filed Under: Easter, Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments Nearly 100 candidates and catechumens across the Erie Diocese welcomed into the church at the vigil — a scene repeated in dioceses and archdioceses across the nation.
RADIO INTERVIEW: ‘Easter and Evangelization’ April 11, 2023By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Easter, Evangelization, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty talks with Father Erik Arnold, pastor of St. John the Evangelist in Severna Park, about how his own faith was renewed and revived and how the message of Easter can radically reorient our lives toward Christ.
Share Easter joy with others, pope urges April 11, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Easter, Feature, News, Vatican, World News The women disciples, who were the first to meet the risen Jesus, offer a lesson to all Christians: “We encounter Jesus by giving witness to him,” Pope Francis said.
You can have a happy Easter even without a butter bunny (7 Quick Takes) April 10, 2023By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Easter, Open Window We had a magnificent Easter, one that continues!
Pope prays that Easter joy would break through gloom of sin, war, strife April 9, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Easter, Feature, News, Vatican, World News On a bright spring morning, Pope Francis prayed that Christians would experience the joy of Easter and allow Christ’s resurrection to be “the light that illumines the darkness and the gloom in which, all too often, our world finds itself enveloped.”
‘Good is stronger than evil,’ Archbishop Lori proclaims at Easter Mass April 9, 2023By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: 2023 Attorney General's Report, Easter, Feature, Local News, News The Catholic Church exists to proclaim the Risen Lord, Archbishop William E. Lori told more than 1,300 people who filled the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland to capacity for the 11 a.m. Easter Mass April 9.
Enter into the joy of Easter April 8, 2023By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Easter, Open Window He extends his grace, invites us to feast at the Eucharistic table, and welcomes us home.
Pope at Easter: Roll away the stone of sadness, encounter the Risen Lord April 8, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Easter, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Easter is the time “to roll away the stone of the tombs in which we often imprison our hope and to look with confidence to the future, for Christ is risen and has changed the direction of history,” Pope Francis said as he celebrated the Easter Vigil Mass.