Norberto Cruz da Silva, a leader in the Wapishana indigenous village of Tabalascada in the Brazilian Amazon and the local catechist coordinator, is pictured in April 2019. The final document of the ...

We Sheas tend toward the hefty end of the spectrum. Some of that is genetics. Some of it is how the family tends to relate to food and (fails) to govern its appetites. Sin has a generational aspect to ...

The radical ex-president of Argentina, Raul Ricardo Alfonsin, who died Monday after a long illness, asked to receive the Sacraments of the Anointing of the Sick and Reconciliation before dying, ...

The chair of the U.S. bishops' committee on liturgy wrote to U.S. bishops Friday, to clarify issues related to the sacraments of penance and anointing of the sick which have arisen during the Church's ...

Along with a widespread threat of illness and death, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has also introduced into the Catholic world controversy and disagreement over the availability of sacraments ...

Auxiliary Bishop W. Francis Malooly of Baltimore gives the sacrament of the anointing of the sick to John Paul D'Aconti, 10, who is autistic, during a Mass on the World Day of the Sick at the Basilica ...