As timing goes, a pope simply can’t do better than to die just after Easter Sunday. The moral of the thing hardly needs ...

The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his ...

Therefore, when I was a teenager and I was supposed to take my Confirmation of Faith vows, I consciously and deliberately decided against it. By that stage I wasn’t a regular churchgoer.

Jane Tomaszewski was thinking about becoming a Catholic when she learned an unusual fact about herself. She’s the direct ...

Steve Burns, 43, a mechanical engineer who lives in Avon Lake, Ohio, was raised a Free Methodist. His wife, Corrine, 42, a ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Especially in a Jubilee Year, but also every day, priests are called to continual conversion so that ...

Religious practice is in decline in Ireland and secularisation and cultural diversity are on the rise, so why is confirmation still so popular?