15 1220 If water springing up from the earth symbolizes life, the water of the sea is a symbol of death and so can represent the mystery of the cross. By this symbolism Baptism signifies communion ...

More than 450 catechumens took their next step into entering the Catholic Church at the Rite of Election, presided over by ...

Baptism, which corresponds to this ... we are saved by grace - a free gift from God due to Christ's death on the cross (Acts 15:11; Eph 2:8). We are not merely saved by accepting Jesus as our ...

Luke’s vision of Jesus is deeply attuned to God’s compassion, justice and concern for those most impoverished and ...

As the Diocese of Brooklyn began the Lenten season with Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of St. James in Downtown Brooklyn on Ash Wednesday, Bishop Robert Brennan opened the season of fasting, prayer, ...

The season of Lent for Western Catholics began on Ash Wednesday, March 5; for Eastern Rite Catholics, Lent began on Clean ...

It took 18 hours for one Iranian Christian convert to cross the Iranian-Turkish border when she fled her country. “We were in ...

Twal is the first patriarchal vicar of Jordan to be ordained on Jordanian soil at a crucial time for the region, amidst the ongoing Gaza war and increasing settler violence against Christian ...

The miraculous origin of the spring at Lourdes in France is well-documented, but in Ireland, there are about 3,000 holy wells ...

Maumelle Methodists and Episcopalians say they share, as Ephesians 4:5-6 puts it, "one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God ...

It came as a surprise to many in the FIA WEC and IMSA paddocks last year that General Motors was moving to rotate out ...

On 21 March 1925, just four days before Mary Flannery O’Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, the legislature of neighbouring ...