PHOENIXVILLE — The regular schedule for Pawling Independent Baptist Church, 400 Pawlings Road, Phoenixville, PA 19460, is ...

Pope Leo XIV delivered his first homily as Bishop of Rome at the Basilica of St. John Lateran, where he took possession of ...

Eastern-rite Catholics accept the authority of the pope but have many of their own rituals and liturgy. They include the Coptic, Chaldean, Maronite and Eritrean Catholic churches, as well as the ...

(CNS/Lola Gomez) Those labeled "traditionalists" because they resist reform, forget that the Catholic Church's tradition is itself a tradition of reform. People may cling to the Tridentine rite as ...

Farrell, chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church, presided over the April 25 prayer service and rite, explaining to the small group ... to parents who emigrated to Argentina from Italy, his entrance into ...

Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the UK’s most senior Catholic, said it was fitting ... Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, will preside over the rite of the ascertainment of death of Pope Francis ...

Pope Francis, an energetic reformer who inspired widespread devotion from Catholics but riled traditionalists, died on Monday aged 88.

Jessica Harvey used to worship in a church ... Catholic liturgy that has set off one of the fiercest controversies in modern Catholicism. In 2021, Pope Francis restricted access to the old rite ...

Gomez anoints the walls of the new Guardian Angel Church in Pacoima during the April 4, 2025 dedication Mass. Cardinal Roger Mahony, Auxiliary Bishop Albert Bahhuth, and retired Bishop Gerald ...

Like a singer switching up a stage name, the process of initiating new Catholics into the church has changed monikers ... such as the Rite of Acceptance, which is now the Rite of Entrance. The changes ...

It was an exultant moment for the church in Sydney as the entrance procession led by Archbishop ... sponsors and parish teams alongside them.” “As our Catholic tradition shares and the Rite affirms, ...

toward formal entrance into the Catholic faith ... with their full communion with the Church at the Easter Vigil Saturday, April 19. The Rite of Election and the Call to Continuing Conversion ...