Understanding how sacraments are of Christ, the church, faith, salvation and eternal life . By Brian Pizzalato . When it comes to the wonders of the mysteries of the sacraments, our Lord, through ...

"The [seven] sacraments are efficacious signs of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us. The visible rites by which the sacraments are ...

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 ...

Baptism is one of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church and the first of the sacraments of Christian initiation, followed by Confirmation and the Eucharist. According to the Holy Scriptures ...

One of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church is penance, or reconciliation, performed to seek forgiveness for wrongdoing. An order of Jesuit priests are seeking to fulfill that sacrament by ...