Nigerian bishop confirms nearly 1,000 faithful in one day
The Diocese of Enugu announced that Auxiliary Bishop Ernest Obodo conferred the Sacrament of Confirmation on an astounding 983 Catholics in a single day this week.
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Articles tagged Confirmation
Cardinal Pizzaballa visits Catholic church in Gaza, performs confirmations
Cardinal Pizzaballa conducted a ‘solidarity visit’ to Holy Family Church in war-torn Gaza on Sunday with permission from the Israeli government and administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to persecuted Catholics.
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NBA veteran Gordon Hayward converts to Catholicism shortly after retiring from 14-year career
Gordon Hayward, a father of four, was received into the Catholic Church in Rome, choosing St. Sebastian, patron of soldiers and athletes, as his confirmation saint.
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‘Be faithful until death’: How Catholics can re-evangelize those who have fallen away
Many Catholics who leave the Church do so because of some degree of evolution-based modernist influence, which leaves us to answer the all important question: what can we do to help them back?
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Italian bishop suspends godparents for sacraments, citing widespread ignorance of spiritual duties
Bishop Mario Vaccari of the Diocese of Massa Carrara-Pontremoli stated the cultural understanding of the role has changed and such a reality leads to godparents who may be in 'open contradiction' with the stipulations of the Catholic Church for the role and duty.
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Why ‘gender transitioning’ conflicts with Catholic moral teaching
The Vatican has brought the question of 'transgenderism' in the Church front and center after the approval of 'transsexuals' as sponsors for Baptism and Confirmation.
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Archbishop Aguer: The Church cannot share the Gospel effectively without more priestly vocations
In this essay Archbishop Emeritus Hector Aguer responds to Bishop Joseph Strickland's removal by Pope Francis and argues that the future of the Church depends on priestly vocations and better catechesis.
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Bishop Strickland refutes the error that ‘all men will be saved,’ emphasizes conversion in new letter
Bishop Strickland warned against trying ‘to offer a way of salvation other than through Jesus Christ and His Church’ and urged Catholics ‘to embrace the wondrous metanoia God offers us only through His Son’ in his latest pastoral message.
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Bishop Strickland reaffirms that unrepentant homosexuals, adulterers cannot receive Communion
Bishop Strickland warned in a new letter that the Church cannot offer Communion to people who persist in grave sin, including homosexuality, adultery, contraception, other sexual impurity, abortion, and living as the opposite sex.
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US bishop: It’s ‘problematic’ for priests to give sacrament of sick to coronavirus sufferers
Bishop Anthony B. Taylor of Little Rock, Arkansas also canceled confirmations, classifying the sacrament as a 'non-essential gathering,' and is discouraging anointing of the sick for coronavirus sufferers.
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