It is called gift because it is conferred on those ... and with good reason are accepted as brothers by the children of the Catholic Church." 81 "Baptism therefore constitutes the sacramental ...

The season of Lent for Western Catholics began on Ash Wednesday, March 5; for Eastern Rite Catholics, Lent began on Clean ...

Low attendance and costly upkeep of the 94-year-old "beautiful but aging building” at 38 N. Austin Blvd. were cited as ...

Amid growing disaffiliation from the Church, Catholic leaders across the country are striving to better catechize young ...

I was appreciative that the director had arranged a lectern for me; it enabled me to hide the pages of the ceremony and more ...

The Season of Lent is a sacred time of forty days in which the Church calls every Christian to embark on a spiritual journey of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. It is a time of penance and preparation ...

The last deaconess of the Armenian Church was Hripsime Sasunian, who died in 2007. A decade after her death, in 2017, ...

About 90% of the 57,000 Greenlanders identify as Inuit and the vast majority of them belong to the Lutheran Church today.

He is also prepared to correct a brother in baptism when his ... in speaking as Christian and Catholic men, annunciating the values of Jesus, and living the gifts and fruits of God's Holy Spirit.

In celebrating Lent and in every season of the liturgical year, it is good to recall the teaching of the Second Vatican ...