A Vatican document explicitly saying Catholic priests can bless same-sex unions lays out the conditions for what such blessings can, and cannot, involve. The overall goal is to make it abundantly ...

Father Jesús Mariscal, parochial vicar at St. Paul Cathedral in Yakima, Wash., poses July 9, 2024, with Lucius Moran, father ...

Any priest may confer the blessings ... Care should be taken that during a blessing nothing indecorous is placed upon the altar, e.g., eatables. Things of this nature should be placed upon a ...

seemed eager Monday to shred one diocese's immunity defense against claims from a former altar boy. “If priests are raping children, the civil courts can hold the bishop liable; I don’t have any ...

The first official recorded casualty of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center was a Catholic priest who rushed .

“I will bless them. I will embrace them. I will embrace you. I will make community with you.” The Associated Press ...

A local leader of the Mexican folk saint cult "La Santa Muerte" was gunned down at an altar to the skeletal figure ... She, another woman and a boy were shot dead Friday as they prepared the ...

Well, considering The Conjuring 2 brought in a Catholic priest to bless the set, fans won't be surprised to hear that the answer to that spooky question is, "Yes." When making The Conjuring 2 ...

Oct. 16—Alex Schuster has a trophy case in his classroom at Alter High School, and it's packed with hardware won by the men's golf team over the last decade. He tries to clear space by letting ...

A Haitian priest promised worshippers he would not ... He encouraged his congregation to bring their pets into a service marking The Blessing of the Animals, a Christian rite in honor of St ...

Young Israelis and Palestinians speak of their hopes and their lack of trust; Georgia goes greener – but just don’t say 'climate change'; and the priests blessing cars in Bolivia. Show more ...