To mark Easter weekend, Le Monde traces the history of this symbol-laden ritual.

In 1998 in Italy there was only one case of 'debaptism', a single person who managed to have a note added to the parish ...

But rules or more rules or no rules don’t absolve the priest at local level from the difficulty of managing every situation ...

Examples given were Dominican Father Paul-Adrien d’Hardemare, who has 481,000 subscribers on YouTube, and Le Catho de Service, which features a lay apologist named Victor who says his goal is to ...

From the moment he took the helm of the Catholic Church's sprawling hierarchy, Pope Francis positioned himself as a pastor ...

On April 17, the Vatican published a note forbidding the crossing-out of baptismal registers. What is at stake? Every week, ...

As followers of Jesus Christ our risen Lord and Savior, we are preparing to celebrate our most sacred and important event the ...

Jubilation filled the air as priests throughout the diocese congregated at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington for ...

The Coptic Orthodox Church, led by Pope Tawadros II, mourned on Monday the death of Pope Francis, head of the Catholic Church ...

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