Q. 917. What is the Mass? A. The Mass is the unbloody sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ. Q. 918. Why is this Sacrifice called the Mass? A. This Sacrifice is called the "Mass" very probably ...

2 The Mass "requires all Christians, so far as human power allows, to reproduce in themselves the sentiments that Christ had when he was offering himself in sacrifice: sentiments of humility ...

The sacrifice of at least 42 children in Tenochtitlán, now Mexico City, was an effort to calm the anger of the Aztec rain god ...

The first of these events dates to around A.D. 1250, and is thus the earliest mass child and animal sacrifice in the region. Similar mass sacrifices have been found from later dates in the same ...

Some 500 years ago, the Chimú in what is now Peru ritually killed hundreds of their young in the largest mass child sacrifice events known in world history. Now archaeologists are trying to ...

Part of these rituals were to sacrifice children who were personifications of tlaloques ... according to the release. The mass execution of children was seen as not only a way to calm the rain god, ...

Questions about the president-elect’s plan, and a call for protests. Also: Tears after the election; funds for education; a ...

“The discovery of two sets of identical twins, as well as other close relatives, in a ritual mass burial of male children suggests that young boys may have been selected for sacrifice because of ...

The Calcutta High Court directed the West Bengal government to ensure that the puja committee at the Bolla Kali temple does ...