COMMENTARY: Papal initiation homilies have long served as ... (photo: Sean Gallup / Getty Images) Father Raymond J. de Souza Commentaries May 16, 2025 Pope Leo XIV will solemnly inaugurate his ...

18 1224 Our Lord voluntarily submitted himself to the baptism of St. John, intended for sinners, in order to "fulfill ... found in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) ...

1285 Baptism, the Eucharist, and the sacrament of Confirmation together constitute the "sacraments of Christian initiation," whose ... to the whole messianic people. 94 On several occasions ...

When they returned to Georgia, they enrolled in Order of Christian Initiation of Adults (OCIA) and found an apartment near their church, where Anna says you can hear the bells calling you.

Pope Leo XIV asked journalists to be peacemakers by shunning prejudice and anger in their reporting, and he called for the ...

A militant neo-Nazi online subculture is propagating violence against migrants and members of the LGBTQ community. Members of ...

For those preparing to become Catholic, the journey often begins long before the Easter Vigil. Through the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults – OCIA, formerly known as RCIA –individuals who are ...

She hears that now more than ever when people begin the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults (OCIA) process. She noted young adults, in particular, like the structure of the Catholic Church in an ...

Only two years ago she was searching for the fullness of truth, and it was around that time that her sister-in-law, and soon-to-be Order of Christian Initiation of Adults (OCIA) sponsor ...

In a moving display of faith and renewal, 20 individuals — adults and children — who had completed the Order of Christian Initiation for Adults (OCIA) program were baptized, and 26 others, also formed ...

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