Within Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and similar traditions, formal blessings of the church are performed by bishops, priests, and sometimes deacons, but as in many other religions ...

The Chrism Mass, traditionally celebrated during Holy Week, is a significant liturgical celebration that unites the Church in ...

On Holy Thursday, more than 1,880 priests, bishops and cardinals renewed ... so that by your holy blessing this oil may be for anyone who is anointed with it a safeguard for body, mind and spirit ...

The German Catholic bishops have published a handout that offers guidance to pastors on blessings for couples in “irregular” ...

In a joint statement the priest, Wendelin Bucheli, and the vicar general of Chur, Martin Grichting, wrote that Bucheli regretted that “many people had been hurt” because of the blessing.

Same-sex couples take part in a public blessing ceremony in front of the Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, Germany, on Sept. 20. In Germany, individual priests have been blessing same-sex couples for ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Tens of thousands of people gathered at the holiest Jewish prayer site in Jerusalem on Tuesday for the traditional priestly blessing prayer. Pakistan conducts missile test as ...