Pope Francis’s battle with double pneumonia is the most serious health complication the pontiff has suffered from since ...

by virtue of the sacrament of Holy Orders, acts in persona Christi Capitis [in the person of Christ, the Head]” (“Catechism of the Catholic Church 1545, 1548). “And he took bread ...

It seems most proper that the things necessary for the last Sacraments should be carefully kept in every Catholic ... Holy Orders. Q. 1002. How do we know that there is a true priesthood in the ...

Rivarol Voltaire of Saint Simon Stock Parish, Berlin, left, joins John Rosado of Saint Gianna Beretta Molla Parish, ...

The Church is enriched by the array of charisms and spiritualities within her. The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains ... the founder of a religious order, ecclesial movement, or ...

While you might hope to glimpse your great-great-grandfather’s baptismal certificate, the confirmation record of a distant cousin or the sacramental marriage certificate of your long-forgotten ...

The Feb. 23 ordination Mass at the Vatican was the culmination of a three-day Holy Year celebration that ... news people need to know about the Catholic Church, especially in the Philadelphia ...

wading into the debate about rising rental prices that has only grown more acute with Holy Year celebrations in 2025. Francis has written to the city's church leaders and religious order priests ...

“The deacon is a minister of evangelization, a permanent and ordained sign and witness of Christ’s ministry of service,” ...

The Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but not when he is ...

The church, at 345 Seventh St. on the city's West Side, had been slated to close after talks about parish mergers last summer ...

A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...