COMMENTARY: Approved on the same day as ‘Lumen Gentium’ and ‘Unitatis Redintegratio,’ ‘Orientalium Ecclesiarum’ manifests the ...

89 For "by the sacrament of Confirmation, [the baptized] are more perfectly bound to the Church and are ... Roman Ritual , Rite of Confirmation ( OC ), Introduction 1. 90 LG 11; Cf.

The Pontiff's message to the Assembly in Orissa that brings together the 204 bishops of the Latin Rite dioceses ... wide the ...

Bray Divers Sub-aqua Club pool training commences at the end of the month. This is for new and existing members who will do ...

The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has produced a seven-part video series that takes a deep dive into the beauty, form and meaning of the Mass. The series is designed in part to match up with ...

At his introductory news ... Cruxnow.com, a Catholic news website, wondered whether Trump forces might counter Catholic critics by lamenting the treatment of clergy sexual-abuse scandals by the church ...

It’s cold out there, and not just because of the weather — we’re officially in another Trump era. Bearing the frigid temps outside and ...

A Church sui iuiris is a distinct community of faithful within a rite of the Church. For example, there are 22 eastern Churches sui iuris, made up of two Alexandrian, three Antiochene, one ...

At the end of a session of the Synod of Bishops of this ancient Eastern-rite Catholic Church deeply rooted in the State of Kerala, the Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil - who as such is the ...

Indulgences are pardons believed to eliminate earthly suffering or time in purgatory — where the Catholic Church teaches that people who have confessed their sins are purified before entering ...