The Vatican decided to restore the ancient practice of permanent deacons after the Second Vatican Council in 1967 but ...

Does the Catholic college or university have anything distinctive to offer to today's world? Only if it maintains dynamic ...

Many Catholic parents think of baptism as just something you do to ... Brian holds an M.A. in Theology and Christian Ministry with a Catechetics specialization and an M.A. in Philosophy from ...

“Catechism of the Catholic Church” number 460 ... This new life in Christ begins in the sacrament of baptism. However, God the Father, who knows how to teach, prepared us to understand ...

The new church, one of the largest Catholic churches in the Middle ... That is the meaning of baptism. There are limits to the theology of geography. Our souls are not physical places; our souls ...

The Eucharist is not simply a cultural legacy. It is more than a moving performance or a beautiful ritual symbolizing ...

"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17). This verse is from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels in the New Testament of the Bible, and is about the ...

Baptism has been a symbolic way of joining the Church from the very start of Christianity. It actually predates Christianity; John the Baptist baptized Jews before Jesus came on the scene, and so ...

“In the Catholic world,” he said, “spirituality is interpreted to be the growth in grace that comes in the life of an individual member of a family in response to the grace infused in ...

The Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, on Friday consecrated a new church at a place on the banks of the Jordan River that the Catholic ... Church of the Baptism of the ...

This verse is from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels in the New Testament of the Bible, and is about the baptism of Jesus Christ — celebrated in the Catholic faith on Jan. 12.

The Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Friday consecrated a new Catholic church at Bethany ... and consecrated the Church of the Baptism of the Lord at Al-Maghtas, known in ...