All Saints Day

Holiness is not a privilege reserved for a few, but a universal vocation, the Holy Father said.

Ahead of All Saints’ Day Nov. 1, here are 10 saints to know from Uruguay, Argentina and Peru, where Pope Leo XIV will travel Nov. 6-17.

All Saints is an ancient feast born in the earliest age of the Church, in an age of persecution, of confessors and martyrs.

“You can’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been. If you want to destroy a people, you make them forget their history.”

By D.D. Emmons (OSV News) — It seems unusual that our church liturgical calendar schedules two major celebrations on days that are back-to-back. But that is precisely the situation with …

Instead of dressing as ghosts or monsters, children appear as saints and angels, joining joyful parades, games and prayer services to highlight All Saints’ Day.

Dante’s Purgatorio is just a poem, a work of fiction, but it expresses a great truth — the truth we Catholics celebrate each year on All Souls Day.

“El Día de los Muertos” (The Day of the Dead), is a time of profound joy, not sorrow. It commemorates the lives of loved ones no longer here, weaving together …

In Mexico, Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) dates to pre-Hispanic times, in which people commemorate and commune with their deceased loved ones.

Much has been written about keeping Christ in Christmas but Catholic children’s author Anthony DeStefano’s new book “All Hallows’ Eve” is helping to keep the Hallow — or “holy” — …