Bishop Paul Zipfel spoke as a retired bishop. Bishop Paul Swain of Sioux Falls, S.D., spoke on the use of technology, the Internet and how it impacts the diocese.

Understanding how sacraments are of Christ, the church, faith, salvation and eternal life. Friday, July 04, 2025. ... “The Word became flesh for us in order to save us by reconciling us with God ...

Archbishop Aquila had restored the original order of receiving the sacraments to baptism, confirmation and holy Communion when he was bishop of Fargo, N.D., in 2002.

Gallup, N.M., Feb 12, 2019 / 16:01 pm. Bishop James Wall of Gallup has announced in a pastoral letter the restoration of the order of the sacraments of initiation in the mission diocese.

A Latin-rite diocese in New Hampshire has begun the process of restoring the reception of the sacraments to the traditional order of baptism, confirmation and first Holy Communion. The goal is to ...

The sacrament—and the nerves it produced in our son—were real. He knew, in some way that he could not entirely articulate, that he had failed to love God and neighbor.

The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has issued a doctrinal note approved by Pope Francis that aims to counteract deviations in the administration of the sacraments.

Volume 68 — the proceedings of the 2017 annual meeting of the Mariological Society of America — collects the scholarly work presented on the meeting’s theme, “Mary and the Sacraments of Initiation.” ...

To protect the sanctity of the sacraments from unbridled arbitrariness and to ensure that the faithful receive the sacraments in the manner established by the Church. Monsignor Maurizio Barba ...