A plenary indulgence is remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven.

(Enter your home and read the Magnificat, the hymn of praise sung by the Blessed Virgin Mary in Luke’s Gospel after being ...

For most of us, New Year's Day means both celebrating what's ahead and learning from the year that's ending. For Catholics, ...

Some will sit in chairs, heads bowed. Some will walk about the room. Others will read unsigned requests laid on the stage.

Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans offered prayers for victims of what he described as a "sign of utter disrespect for ...

Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond of New Orleans offered prayers for victims of what he described as a "sign of utter disrespect ...

on the first day of the year as they wished to start the New Year with divine blessings. The approach road from the main entrance at the foot of the Nilachal Hill to the 5th-century Kamakhya ...