Across the globe, Catholic churches have emptied holy water fonts in an effort to stall the spread of coronavirus, or COVID-19 as it’s officially known. From India to the U.K., the U.S. and even to ...

Thou shalt not infect thy neighbor with swine flu. With that commandment in mind, a clever Catholic invented an electronic holy water dispenser for Italians afraid to dip their hands in communal fonts ...

Should we have holy water in the fonts during Lent or should they turn into little ash trays? What does the Church say? Like other liturgical seasons, Lent has its own special rules, and there are ...

Advent is a time to remember how deeply our faith is an incarnate one, where we cannot experience the depth of our faith apart from the physical world—that is, places, things, people. As Gerard Manley ...

People at one Dublin church this week were still dipping their fingers into holy water fonts and blessing themselves, despite warnings to the contrary. While all the holy water fonts inside St ...

ROME (Reuters) - An Italian inventor has combined faith and ingenuity to come up with a way to keep church traditions alive for the faithful without the fear of contracting swine flu -- an electronic ...

The Catholic Church has issued advice to priests and those attending Mass across Ireland following the first case of coronavirus to be detected. Information which has been circulated today to all ...

American Catholics may notice one consequence of the coronavirus outbreak as soon as they step into their local parishes for Mass this weekend: holy water fonts without a drop of water inside. The ...

Many churches had suspended the tradition of keeping holy water in open fonts into which people dipped their hands following the outbreak of the H1N1 virus. But an Italian inventor has combined faith ...