The diocese considered all of the Catholics involved, including the priests, excommunicated. Mary Ramerman, founding pastor of Spiritus Christi Church, arrives at a wedding in Stowe, Vermont, on ...

Some Christians say that the sacraments are not necessary for salvation, because they involve matter (e.g. water, oil, laying on of hands, other human persons) and God is just worried about saving ...

Covenant, sacraments divinely linked By Brian Pizzalato At the Last Supper, Jesus “…took the bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them, saying, ‘This is my body, which will be ...

The sacraments, too, are made up of such specifics—bread, wine, oil—reflecting the accidents of geography and culture that made Jesus the specific man he was.

Baptism washes away all, absolutely all our sins, whether of deed, word, or thought, whether sins original or added, whether knowingly or unknowingly contracted. ( Against Two Letters of the ...

The 11-page text published only in Italian on Feb. 3 reiterates that for all sacraments in the Catholic Church, the ‘observance of both matter and form has always been required for the validity ...

As far as the diocese is aware, all of the other sacraments that Arango conferred are valid. But because baptism is the "sacrament that grants access to all the others," a botched baptism could ...

As far as the diocese is aware, all of the other sacraments that Arango conferred are valid. But because baptism is the "sacrament that grants access to all the others," a botched baptism could ...

Pope Francis baptizes Auriea Harvey, a woman from the United States, during the Easter Vigil Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this file photo from April 8, 2023.