All the rites of the Catholic Church are of equal dignity and equally valid. Attendance at a different rite fulfills the Sunday obligation. The Catholic Church is truly universal since it unites ...

The finishing touches of the rituals and the Missal of the Amazonian Rite will probably be concluded in July, according to ...

1214 This sacrament is called Baptism , after the central rite by which ... communion among all Christians, including those who are not yet in full communion with the Catholic Church: "For men ...

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The ceremony was the first local ordination in the era of Pope Leo XIV, who was elected to the papacy on May 8, succeeding ...

The cardinals would sit in a hall in a half circle with the dean of the college of cardinals, the Italian Giovanni Battista, ...

Deborah Eckland first reported her brother Glenn Chrzan missing to Manchester Police on January 29. He’d left Catholic ...

We are Slovak!” my grandfather would yell. Emphatically, my father would bellow back, “We are Rusyn!” And so it went, until ...

Although Pope Francis already set Aug. 3 as the date to declare the sainthood of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, Pope Leo XIV ...

"The desire to work together for a common purpose reflects an essential reality: no one is Christian alone. We are part of a ...

The Roman Catholic Church traces its origin to the apostles and specifically to Peter. They are by far the largest ...