Rooted in early Christian tradition, Candlemas marks the presentation of Jesus and purification of the Virgin Mary at Herod's ...

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity concludes at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Annunciation, near Jaffa Gate – the seat of the Melkite community in Jerusalem and one of the most discreet yet ...

We celebrate a joyful mystery today, the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, when Mary and Joseph brought their infant ...

The spotlight returned to Gobbler’s Knob in western Pennsylvania, when handlers of a groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil said ...

Punxsutawney Phil's handlers say he's seen his shadow and is therefore predicting six more weeks of winter weather. Phil's ...

Thousands of people gather every year at Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa., to see the weather-predictor extraordinaire.

For most Mexicans, the festive season begins on Dec. 16 with the first posada and ends on Feb. 2 with Candlemas, or the Presentation of the Lord.

The Second of February is an important date in the Christian Calendar – Candle Mass, or Presentation of Christ in The Temple.

The timing for the end to this interminable winter depends on which woodchuck you choose to believe today on Groundhog Day.

To be in the sanctuary is one thing. To experience sanctuary is something else. The ancients revered the Temple. There was only one. In Jerusalem.  That was where God lived.  The temple did not have a ...