After refraining from saying “Alleluia” throughout the Lenten season, Gretchen Crowe’s household is ringing with glory and praise this Easter! In honor of this great time of feasting and celebrating, Crowe put together something special. In her latest column, she writes: “So
In their Easter messages, Catholic patriarchs of the Middle East encouraged the hope of the Resurrection to triumph over suffering in the region.
Lebanese Cardinal Bechara Rai, Maronite patriarch of the Maronite Catholic church, lamented the economic, social and political crisis crippling Lebanon.
Victoria Costa writes about George Frideric Handel and how he came to compose the Messiah, a classical musical staple that can carry listeners into the cosmic vision of redemption brought by the Resurrection, and know that Christ, who came into the world
In his column this week, Monsignor Owen Campion tells the story of a little-known legend about Easter morning and how the light of Christ on Easter morning transformed an ugly, useless plant into what we now know as the sunflower. He writes:
As we begin the Easter season, columnist Kenneth Craycraft looks at how Christ’s resurrection changed the political landscape in this earthly city (to use St. Augustine’s phrase) for all of eternity. He writes: “While we are dual citizens, the law of the
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.
The entire city of Jerusalem had seen Jesus crucified on the cross, yet the
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."
"In Jesus
Doug White was flying back home to Louisiana with his family when he noticed that the pilot had passed out. Suddenly, White was no longer a passenger. He was the pilot. “I can’t control this thing,” White warned as a pilot on
Easter is the time to "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
Like Christmas and other Catholic holy days, Easter is often misunderstood and mis-celebrated. Either its origins are said to be based on pagan holidays (a myth we will bust), or we treat it as a day to binge after a season of