Irish voters supported overwhelmingly last week a daily broadcast of the "Angelus Bells" on national broadcasting network RTE. In a centuries-old custom, Church bells have rung daily across Europe at ...

Wherever you live, chances are you hear the church bells from time to time. Perhaps you’ve grown so accustomed to their gentle pealing that you don’t even notice, but Catholic churches customarily ...

Every evening at 6 p.m., programming on Ireland’s national radio and television broadcaster stops. News and weather are put on hold while a bell tolls, ringing in the pattern 3-3-3-9. This daily ...

The tolling of the Angelus bells before noon Mass encapsulates a moment of music bringing families together: It is a call to young and old alike to cease from labor and turn together toward God. This ...

RTE Television unveiled a new version of the Angelus a couple of weeks ago. It wasn't a huge news item here – notwithstanding the Irish Times' decision to put the story on the front page – but the ...

The one-minute of Catholic prayer that precedes the main news on Irish state television is an everyday reminder of the traditional place of the church in the country. But last week "The Angelus" ...

Jean-François Millet’s The Angelus portrays something that, for many people today, is a foreign experience. A pair of farmworkers, a man and a woman, set aside their work-tools and bend in prayer—she, ...

Sunday's sounds were sweet to the ears of the Rev. Wayne Wilkerson. Wilkerson, former parochial vicar of St. Helen Catholic Church, and presently pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Sweeny, Texas, ...