On a beige altar striped with beams of sunlight, Fr. Kyle Digmann presses oil onto the forehead of a young woman. She looks like she's in her early 30s. She's donning a brown robe with a white robe ...

Every Easter vigil, dioceses across the United States welcome thousands of new converts into the Catholic Church through RCIA. But how a parish’s RCIA efforts prepare and support new converts to be ...

The action still needs the approval of the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments before it takes effect. The name change applies both to the process by which ...

Francis presides over the rite of admission to the catechumenate , the penultimate event of the Year of Faith, which closes tomorrow with a solemn Mass in St. Peter's. The pontiff gives Gospels to ...

Auxiliary Bishop Italo Dell’Oro of Galveston-Houston preaches the homily during the Rite of Election at St. Ignatius of Loyola Catholic Church in Spring, Texas, March 6, 2022. Four Rite of Election ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Growing up in Maine, Paul Madore sampled a few different Christian denominations until his mother settled on ...

Dressed in cream garbs with red stoles which bore an embroidered logo and name, Our Lady of Fatima Choir, in Buhungiro Parish led a procession as they heartily sang, Obunibwebwiire obw’okusaasirana, ...

Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - A total of 852 catechumens are preparing spiritually to receive the sacrament of baptism during the Easter Vigil on April 8, 2023, considering only the Catholic ...

Find today’s readings here. “Wherever you go, I will go, wherever you lodge I will lodge, your people shall be my people, and your God my God.” A few years ago, I volunteered as a “welcomer” for RCIA ...

Millions of Americans have joined the Catholic Church through the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults or RCIA. Adult converts typically join the Catholic Church on Easter, but their initiation ...

Presenter: Rev. Msgr. James A. Mongelluzzo,a priest of the Diocese of Worcester and professor of liturgy and homiletics and director of community worship, Blessed John XXIII National Seminary This ...