Around the time the Vatican announced the death of Pope Francis, music floated out from a church in a Kosovo valley where ...

Especially in a Jubilee Year, but also every day, priests are called to continual conversion so that they can authentically ...

99 1289 Very early, the better to signify the gift of the Holy Spirit, an anointing with perfumed oil ( chrism ) was added to the laying on of hands. This anointing highlights the name "Christian ...

What do the outward signs of anointing with oil, laying on of hands and the bishop or priest saying “Be sealed with the Gift of the Holy Spirit” signify? What are some of the other interior ...

Such ceremonies are becoming less rare in Muslim-majority Kosovo, where some so-called "hidden-Catholics" or "Laramans" (a term meaning many-faceted in Albanian) are choosing to return openly to ...

Around the time the Vatican announced the death of Pope Francis, music floated out from a church in a Kosovo valley where dozens of Muslims were participating in an unusual ceremony: they were ...

“I baptise you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen,” intoned the priest, Father Fran Kolaj as he welcomed 38 new Catholics — aged from seven to 55 — anointing ...