The Catholic Church is truly universal since it unites so many diverse rites, whose members share a common faith. Latest news Nearly 2 dozen bishops visit remote community of ‘banished ...

34 The rites for these stages are to be found in ... including those who are not yet in full communion with the Catholic Church: "For men who believe in Christ and have been properly baptized ...

Pope Francis has just amended the funeral rites to be used when he passes ... he's making sure that Catholic leaders from the church's edges have a voice at the big table." ...

The 87-year-old pontiff – who turns 88 next month – enacted a new set of liturgical rites aimed at modernizing the Catholic Church that scraps lengthy, garish funeral practices his ...

COMMENTARY: Liturgical vestments like copes, chasubles and dalmatics are part of the beauty of the liturgy, alongside church ...

Catechism of the Catholic Church 1542 Holy Orders differs from other sacraments as it has three separate stages. It can only be given by a man who has himself undertaken all three rites and has ...

COMMENTARY: Approved on the same day as ‘Lumen Gentium’ and ‘Unitatis Redintegratio,’ ‘Orientalium Ecclesiarum’ manifests the ...

A proposed law in Washington state would require priests to violate Catholic Church law by breaking the seal of confession.

As clergy and faithful present proclaimed “Axios! Axios! Axios!” (Greek for “He is worthy”), Fr. Artur Bubnevych was ...