With apologies to the Polish Catholics celebrating the feast of Our Lady of Częstochowa on Aug. 26: Blessings for the feast of Melchizedek. Yes, that Melchizedek, from Genesis 14 and Hebrews 7 and ...

The feast of Mary, Mother of the Church was inserted into the General Roman Calendar by Pope Francis in 2018, but has its roots in the reform of the liturgical calendar in 1969 and the Jubilee Year of ...

For Pope Francis, the liturgy both defied easy definition, and yet could also be encapsulated in just a couple of sentences: "It is an act that founds the whole Christian experience and, therefore, ...