To mark Easter weekend, Le Monde traces the history of this symbol-laden ritual.

Almost all English dioceses reported a significant increase in both catechumens and candidates at the Rite of Election at the ...

Confirmation and Holy Communion – to the adults who it said had completed the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. Those set to be baptised hail from Albania, the United Kingdom, India ...

The adjacent Archdiocese of Southwark, which has a significant evangelization program, saw over 450 adults complete the Rite of Christian Initiation ... a Protestant book publisher, said there ...

OCIA is the Order of Christian Initiation for Adults, previously called the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults ... the author of several books including "Fruitful Discipleship: Living the Mission ...

In life, Pope Francis caught the world’s attention with his humility and his holiness. So it’s no surprise that in death, the ...

Fung Yiyan came across Acquinas’ teachings when researching the theme of suffering in the Book of Job for an assignment ... A few months later, in August, she signed up for the Rite of Christian ...

There are 79 churches in the diocese and the religious rite is as old as the church ... a member of the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults team at St. John’s. “It’s all about finding ...

It’s so high that the diocese had to move its Rite of Election — during ... Todd Graff, the diocese’s coordinator of adult Christian initiation, told the Register that decades ago the ...

By Lindsay Steele The Catholic Messenger A Catholic couple has turned the page on heartbreak, something they attribute to God ...