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 ...

After the Christmas season and before Lent, Orthodox priests have – for centuries – rushed to visit church members' homes to bless them with prayers and splashes of holy water flung about with a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dozens of pet owners took their animals to church on Saturday morning where Catholic priests blessed them on the Day of St Anthony ...