The “Birkat Cohanim,” or Cohen’s blessing, is a ritual dating back to over 2,500 years ago when King Solomon’s Temple stood on the same site. The blessing is performed by Jewish men who can trace ...

For Sigalit Cohen, mother of former hostage Eliya Cohen, attending the Birkat Cohanim (Priestly Blessing) ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Tuesday felt like coming full circle.

Jews attend a prayer for the return of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, at the Western Wall, ...

After the Sign of the Cross at the beginning of Mass, the priest may choose to greet the ... at the beginning of the Preface and before the final blessing. However, when the new translation ...

The first-born son was meant to receive a double portion of the inheritance of the father; this was the first-born son’s birthright, as well as the priestly blessing of the father. The first ...

The news carried in The Times newspaper and online reports that King Juan Carlos of Spain is to approve “the appointment of a priest from Gibraltar as head of a leading Catholic training college ...

In a joint statement the priest, Wendelin Bucheli, and the vicar general of Chur, Martin Grichting, wrote that Bucheli regretted that “many people had been hurt” because of the blessing.