It's a good idea for couples to visit their parish well in advance to learn about specific requirements and the time needed ...

Long before Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor raised her famous peacocks as an adult in rural Georgia, she kept canaries and chickens at 207 E. Charlton St., her childhood home in Savann ...

Bray Divers based in Greystones Harbour expect to have three more members gain international diving certificates before ...

Among those items is Flannery's baptismal certificate showing she was baptized ... was raised under the shadow of the Catholic Church, and it infused who she was for the rest of her life.

A Catholic since ... their desire for baptism. The catechumens’ names are recorded in a ledger known as the Book of the Elect, and those books are brought forward by a Church representative ...

communion with the Catholic Church. Justified by faith in Baptism, [they] are incorporated into Christ; they therefore have a right to be called Christians, and with good reason are accepted as ...

Moreover, they must answer the questions asked at baptism and declare that they believe in the Holy Catholic Church and in all it teaches; which would be a falsehood on their part. Q. 667.

A sweeping elementary school review at the OCDSB that includes changing boundaries for some schools has outraged parents. If ...

CNA explains more about the process and why it has been initiated: Initiated by Pope Francis in October 2021, the Synod on Synodality was a multiyear, worldwide process of the Catholic Church ...