Pope Francis prays during a Eucharistic celebration in the Vatican, on the final day of a summit on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church From Australian country towns to schools in Ireland and ...

Song of Songs is a mosaic of love poems which has a loosely defined plot. The original text does not include indications for each speaker, but most translations include notes naming the Bride and ...

But separately, he placed his wedding ring in front of her. As a Catholic, his wedding ring had been blessed during his matrimonial ceremony — making the ring a sacramental. As the Catechism ...

Jennifer is crushed that h e r dream of a huge Catholic wedding may have gone up in smoke,' a close friend said. 'A month ago she was telling people that she'd be able to get the church to agree ...

Confirmation is a sign that a person has reached maturity and is now able to take responsibility for their own faith. It also strengthens and deepens the connection to the Church that is ...

The Catholic Bishop of Kontagora Diocese, Most Rev. Dr. Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, has conducted a mass wedding for thirty couples in Niger state. While joining the couples in holy matrimony at St.

For their Halloween-weekend October wedding, they chose a “fall in DC” theme and married at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown, followed by a reception at the Hay-Adams Hotel. They say ...

"Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen, "Everybody Hurts" by R.E.M., plus many more songs and a few “yarns and jokes in between.” This is what Fr. Ray Kelly, affectionately dubbed “The Singing Priest,” will ...

The Catholic Church cannot be credible in its mission of proclaiming Christ unless it acknowledges its mistakes and bends down "to heal the wounds we have caused by our sins," Pope Francis said.

For Catholics, rather than being a literal explanation for the origin of life, Genesis 1 teaches key information about God’s nature. God made the world how he wanted it to be, and he is ...

The Catholic Church does not have the power to bless same-sex unions, the Vatican office responsible for doctrine has said. It is "impossible" for God to "bless sin", the Congregation for the ...