On Sunday, 5 January 2014, Pope Francis met informally the Gozitan choir Laudate Pueri outside his residence in the Vatican. Among the hymns the choir serenaded him with, was the Italian version of a ...

Joseph McAuley, on the occasion of his First Holy Communion, Saturday, April 19, 1969 Some three months before Neil Armstrong stepped off the ladder of the lunar module and left his footprints upon ...

This Scribbler column was originally published on Nov. 24, 1992 Many Scribbler readers will know that Lancaster educator John Piersol McCaskey wrote "Jolly Old St. Nicholas" and that Millersville ...

The Eucharist arrives at St. Mary of the Pines in Manahawkin, New Jersey, May 29, part of the Seton Route of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage 2024. (photo: Jeffrey Bruno/EWTN) Register Staff Blogs ...

For Jacob Grice, preparing for his First Communion has meant more screen time than class time. Weekly catechism lessons on Zoom, online Mass and a virtual retreat were just a few of the ways the ...

After my mother died five years ago, I learned that she had been born to young Russian Jewish parents living on Orchard Street on the lower East Side of Manhattan. She had never spoken of this ...

It is First Communion season, and with Covid restrictions eased, celebrations and family gatherings have returned – for some people at least. It’s a milestone occasion in many children’s lives, and ...

The Methodist Church in Britain is to have a new collection of hymns next year. This is important, for, ever since the time of the Wesleys, Methodist belief has been expressed in its hymns. John ...