CCC, 1536, 1591, 1598. It is bishops who confer the sacrament of Holy Orders in the three degrees: episcopate, presbyterate, and dia­conate. In the Latin Church, the sacrament of Holy Orders for ...

The state law, in Washington, applies to all religions but has outraged Catholics in particular. The Justice Department is ...

It may surprise most people to know that there are many different rites within the Catholic Church ... about how the sacraments are to be celebrated. As the early Church grew and spread, it ...

The announcement that an American cardinal had been elected Roman Catholic Church’s 267th pope had special meaning for a ...

A plurality of the Catholic Church is in Latin America ... comfortable rectories in rich countries instead of providing the sacraments in their own backyard. “It is noteworthy that, in some ...

After watching each of the seven episodes ... one takes towards faith can be very helpful—the church, the institution of the church, the sacraments—but ultimately, it has to be yourself.

Clyde married his high school sweetheart Elizabeth “Betty” Dohmen while on leave, November 23, 1957, at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Grand Island, Neb. To this union seven children ...

Seven priests ... Columbus in 1971 and The Catholic University of America in Washington in 1975. He was ordained a priest Nov. 29, 1975, by Arlington Bishop Thomas J. Welsh. He served as parochial ...

The Catholic ... the Church — he destabilized it. The consequences are now in plain view. His document “Amoris Laetitia” cast doubt on the Church’s teaching on marriage and the sacraments.

The Archdiocese is warning the move is a violation of the separation between church and state and said ... knowledge of abuse is obtained during the Sacrament of Reconciliation,” the Archdiocese ...

The Catholic Church announced that priests will be excommunicated ... this law if the knowledge of abuse is obtained during the Sacrament of Reconciliation," its statement said.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, previously led a Catholic ...