(RNS) — ‘Low’ or ‘free’ church Christians, raised on contemporary worship services with praise bands and dim lights, are seeking out ‘high church’ traditions replete with sacramental rituals and ...

This week's synod deliberations began with a Byzantine Divine Liturgy at St. Peter's Basilica. The short video of the service published by EWTN displayed some of the beauty of that liturgy, as well as ...

Roman Catholic Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo has given the Church of the Holy Apostles – a blended Catholic and Episcopal parish – until Feb. 28 to end its 30-year practice of celebrating Holy Communion ...

About 150 lay people replaced priests on altars on Tuesday morning across the Catholic diocese of Limerick for the first time in its 900-year history. The entirely lay-led Liturgy of the Word morning ...

For me, the time between deciding to become a Catholic and actually going through with it was intense – like it is for many converts. It’s a huge, unsettling step, fraught with anxiety and self-doubt ...

The requirement to practice social distancing means that many more U.S. Catholics are going to attend a Communion service on Sunday rather than a Mass. Many Catholics will not notice the difference or ...

The Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion in some respects looks like a traditional Mass with a rite (the veneration of the cross) added. It is not. First of all, it is not a Mass because no consecration of ...

Over the past four summers I have gotten a break from doctoral studies in sacramental theology at the Atheneum of Sant’Anselmo in Rome by ministering at St. Isaac Jogues Parish in Rapid City, S.D. A ...

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