What the Catechism of the Catholic Church says on "Purgatory:" 1031. "The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment ...

The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. "A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication latae sententiae ," 77 "by the ...

The church acknowledges three creeds: the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene-Constantinople Creed and the Athanasian Creed.

Prayer is not always a walk in the park. It oftentimes takes us to the mat of a spiritual wrestling match between ourselves ...

Arkansas Catholics don't have to travel to Rome to commemorate the 2025 Jubilee; they can participate in the Holy Year in ...

Sent by his religious order to Hong Kong to share the Gospel in Asia, one Catholic priest's missionary work is raising hell — ...

It is common for people to think that they must believe in Christianity or believe in science. Some claim that we no longer ...

The Catholic Church in Bangladesh has launched the Bengali-language version of the "Catechism of the Catholic Church." "Now we have in written form what we believe and we need to make it a reality by ...

Republicans swept the Evangelical Christian vote and won a historic margin among Catholics in the 2024 presidential election. These two groups of religious voters have similar priorities and ...

Most Rev Dr James Thoppil, Bishop of Kohima, Nagaland, praying before the Blessed Sacrament at St Joseph Church, Chümoukedima ...

A Catholic advocacy group demanded an apology from Apple CEO Tim Cook over a scene in an Apple TV+ show that depicts characters desecrating ... as the Catechism of the Catholic Church puts it, ...

Pope Leo XIV on Friday set Sept. 7 as the rescheduled date to canonize the Catholic Church's first millennial-era saint, Carlo Acutis, in what is expected to be Leo's first saint-making ceremony as ...