The leader of the nation's Catholic bishops has commended Pope Francis' move to extend to the universal Catholic Church the ...

A PHP script / API endpoint that will generate the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar for any given year, calculating the mobile festivities and the precedence of solemnities, feasts, memorials ...

It distributes through the year the whole mystery of Christ, from the Incarnation to the expectation of his return in glory, and thus makes it possible in a more organic and closely-knit fashion to ...

Ash Wednesday is the first day of the season of Lent that leads up to Good Friday and Easter. What to know about the day.

The leader of the nation's Catholic bishops has commended Pope Francis' move to extend to the universal Catholic Church the feast of a beloved saint and "contemporary witness" of faith. On Feb. 11, th ...

The Eastern Christian Churches recall the Sorrows of Mary during the Passion cycle (cf. Jn 19:25). For Roman Catholics ... Some of these events are commemorated on the liturgical calendar (e.g. Our ...

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Unfortunately, the pharmaceutical companies perpetuate this with their products designed to replicate the "normal cycle." Ovulatory cycles range from 26 to 35 days and do not obey calendars.

By Michael M. Canaris Astute churchgoers likely recently noted that the weekend of Jan. 18-19 marked the Second Sunday in ...

Holy Saturday marks the end of the Lenten season on April 19, it is a time to mourn the death of Jesus and to prepare for his ...

Tom and Jane have three children, and have determined that they cannot adequately provide for any more at the present time. They know that artificial means of birth control are morally wrong, and ...