Parishioners in rural Louisiana received an airborne blessing this Christmas as 100 gallons of holy water rained down on the small community. On Dec. 22, the parish priest of St. Anne Church in Cow ...

A Roman Catholic church in rural Louisiana hoping to maximize its blessings has come up with a way to do it: filling up a crop-duster plane with holy water and letting the sanctified liquid mist an ...

Holy water is a special kind of blessed water used in the Catholic Church to help people feel closer to God and prepare for prayer they are about to offer. It is utilized in many rituals and ...

DENVER, Colo. — After photos appearing to depict blessings or baptisms by water gun went viral online, several priests cautioned that Catholics should take care to treat sacred objects and rites with ...

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Dozens of pet owners took their animals to church on Saturday morning where Catholic priests blessed them on the Day of St Anthony, the patron saint of animals. The ceremony took place on the steps ...

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