According to the Catholic Church, there are seven Sacraments: Baptism (Mark 16:16), Reconciliation ... warned the Smyrnaeans about the Docetes - gnostic heretics: They (the Docetes) have no ...

The shocking story of Metropolitan Ioannis of Korça - He was the first bishop ordained by Archbishop Anastasios, became his ...

The Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Friday consecrated a new Catholic church at ... inaugurated and consecrated the Church of the Baptism of the Lord at Al-Maghtas, known ...

communion with the Catholic Church. Justified by faith in Baptism, [they] are incorporated into Christ; they therefore have a right to be called Christians, and with good reason are accepted as ...

As a Catholic, Vance said, the criticism left him “heartbroken.” Then he hit out at the church for its role in garnering hundreds of millions of dollars in federal contracts to serve immigrants over ...

Father Sergio Pérez, superior of the Community of the Institute of the Incarnate Word established on the site of the baptism of Jesus ... with the care of the Catholic church on the site known ...

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

Indulgences are pardons believed to eliminate earthly suffering or time in purgatory — where the Catholic Church teaches that people who have confessed their sins are purified before entering ...

"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17). This verse is from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels in the New Testament of the Bible, and is about the ...

The Vatican's top diplomat met with papal representatives to various Middle Eastern countries to discuss possible avenues toward peace in the region and the state of the Catholic Church there.