Most Catholic traditions have faded away, but the idea of giving something up for Lent persists. But many have lost sight of ...

There's a day that comes around each year when you might see people walking around with black marks on their foreheads ...

In 1639, Prince Honore II established the Venerable Brotherhood of the Black Penitents of Mercy. The Brotherhood now organises a processional on the evening of Good Friday known as the Procession of ...

There's a day that comes around each year when you might see people walking around with black marks on their foreheads—it's ... answer whether or not it's just a Catholic observance (and if the Bible ...

With a Catholic clergy Lenten dance trend, a callout by pastor and Sen. Raphael Warnock and a prominent place in sermons by ...

Former Houston City Councilman Amanda Edwards and Isaiah Martin will face the already heavily endorsed Harris County Attorney ...

Michael Stewart, the Satanic Grotto’s founder, said the host he plans to use in next week’s Topeka ritual “came from Pope ...

A Satanic group planning a "black mass" at the Kansas Statehouse March 28 has sworn in court it is not in possession of a ...

“Satanist” groups intending to stage so-called “black masses” — a direct mockery of the Catholic Mass — have on at least one occasion boasted of possessing a stolen consecrated host ...