Over the course of a day and a half, the more than 130 members of the College of Cardinals had come to a decision on who should lead the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. On May 8, 2025, they elected ...

In 2021, the latter were twice as numerous as the 18–25-year-olds in seeking baptism. Among teenagers ... the 2025 figure is not yet known – the sacrament of confirmation is generally received ...

A Pew Research Center study conducted in 2024 found that for every American who converts to Catholicism, another 8.4 leave. The only reason that Catholicism is able to maintain a relatively steady ...

Close to the heels of Pope Francis’ death, the long list of possible successors emerged. Each day dawns with an exposition of ...

Overall, the SBC fell to 12.7 million members in 2024, its lowest since 1974. The denomination has lost more members in the 4 ...

All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the other way around, differing in beliefs about the sacraments, the pope, the ...

All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the other way around, differing in beliefs about the sacraments, the pope, the saints and the Virgin Mary.

I understood from an early age that I’d been born into one of the more intricate religions. I’d only completed one of the seven sacraments (baptism, the freebie) when I realized that, in most ...

it is also the first of the seven "sacraments," a term referring to rites through which God acts for salvation, like the Eucharist or marriage. The word "baptism" comes from the Greek baptizein ...

Today, he is not only raising seven children with his wife ... blog offering more than simply times for Mass and the sacraments. Why did you add those as app features? We created the blog ...

“We must not simply imagine some procedures for ‘after’ baptism, but our entire parish ... 11 and 17 years old preparing to receive the sacrament. Dioceses across France report a 33% ...