According to the master of liturgical ceremonies, Archbishop Diego Ravelli, Pope Leo will be both blessing and personally ...

On June 28, the church celebrates the feast day of St. Irenaeus of Lyon, the most recently declared doctor of the church.

Leo XIV did so at a mass to mark the martyrdom of saints Peter and Paul under Emperor Nero, between AD 64 and 68. Peter was crucified upside down beneath what is now the main altar of the Basilica ...

Ten years ago, Pope Francis opted to only bless the pallia and then give them to each of the new archbishops to be vested by the apostolic nuncio in their own archdiocese as a sign of the ...

This verse, especially in light of Matt. 28:19-20 and 2 Tim. 2:2, suggests Apostolic Succession, the passing on of the discipleship to faithful men through the centuries, since Christ's original ...

While it seems like an eternity ago, if I try hard enough I can almost remember the muted moment as I stood on my high school ...

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Comfortably dressed in undershirt and shorts, the Supreme Bishop was drinking ice-cold beer in his Manila house when the official word was brought to him: the Manila Court of the First Instance ...

(Rome, for instance, actually defines the Church as the society of the faithful under the Pope’s headship; some Anglicans make episcopacy in the apostolic succession similarly essential.) ...

June 29th is one of the most significant days in the Orthodox Church’s calendar, as it commemorates the memory of the Holy ...

One can trace the notion of apostolic succession back to Paul's missionary journeys, for instance. Also, St. Clement of Rome talks about it a century before Irenaeus, how the apostles "appointed their ...