The sacraments are not to be given to those who do not believe. The reception of all of the sacraments concludes with the response “amen,” which is a way of professing belief.

The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the ...

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 ...

People often come to know Christ because of the influence of one person — and sometimes they walk away for the same reason.

This year we had the awe-filled opportunity to journey with eight students as they prepared to receive sacraments of initiation to become Catholic at the Easter Vigil. Four of them were catechumens– ...

So, let us be clear: Asthma is a disease that affects the whole body, but it begins in certain organs. Everyone suffers, but ...

Pope Leo XIV has spoken publicly about his childhood in Chicago for the first time as pontiff. Leo recalled Thursday that ...

The Choir of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception from Washington, D.C., performed at Saint Mary ...

Catholic priests will now be able to celebrate Mass "for the care of creation" after the Vatican announced that a new formulary of prayers and biblical readings for the Mass will be added to the Roman ...

Pope Leo XIV has heavy responsibilities ~ not just because the Catholic Church has reached global proportions, but because it ...

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Loving Mercifully, Living Marian” are the words printed on the welcome doormats of Divine Mercy Church in Kenner, sharing St.