There are no feast days observed during Holy Week. When March 25 falls during Holy Week, as it does this year, the great feast of the Annunciation is delayed to the Monday after Divine Mercy Sunday.

On Sunday, April 13, the Archdiocese of Newark will join the Universal Church as Catholics and other Christians enter the most sacred week of the year, beginning with Palm Sunday and culminating in ...

Filipino worshippers wave palm fronds in front of crucifix during Palm Sunday Mass in Manila, Philippines. (CNS photo/Romeo Ranoco, Reuters) The liturgies of Holy Week need to be seen as a unity. With ...

Servers carry an urn of sacred oil during Pope Francis’s Chrism Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on April 6, 2023. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – In his first major liturgy for Holy Week, Pope ...

Pope Francis greets the faithful as he makes a surprise appearance in St. Peter's Square at the end of Palm Sunday Mass at the Vatican April 13, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) Pope Francis’ condition ...

Pope Francis is going without supplemental oxygen for longer periods and is continuing therapy to recover his voice and to recover his physical strength, the Vatican press office said, but he also is ...

Fidelino Josol takes pride in being part of the Penitentes, an all-male centuries-old Catholic fraternity, that organizes the re-enactment of Passion of Christ during the Holy Week. “I joined the ...