The election of Pope Leo XIV earlier this month has led to a renewed interest in people searching for information on how to ...

3) Join OCIA. The next step is to officially join OCIA, the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults. (This process was previously, for a long time, called RCIA, the Rite of Christian Initiation of ...

He later participated in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults and was confirmed at Our Lady Queen of Heaven Catholic Church on April 23, 2011. Shane was also a 3rd Degree Member of the ...

It's nearly winter in South Africa, which means the opening of winter initiation schools is approaching. These rituals mark a transition to adulthood and are deeply ingrained culturally. But they're ...

People follow fads to fit in. And because it’s easy, which becoming Catholic is not, requiring time commitments and internal ...

The observance of a ritual associated with a religion does not necessarily mean the person converted to that religion, court ...

Animistic rituals from the past have been largely reinterpreted as thanksgiving to the Creator God in Sabah and Sarawak ...

converted to Catholicism in 2018 through the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults. He knew that Catholicism wasn’t much more accepting of homosexuality than the Southern Baptist environment ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, is beginning his ministry with a historic ceremony at St. Peter’s Square, blending ...

That the Episcopalians should protect themselves against the inroads that Christian Science and other ... re-introduction of the ancient sacramental rite of unction is a proposal that is receiving ...