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Worship & Sacraments

Papal preacher: Neglecting Mass means losing sight of heaven

March 14, 2025
By Justin McLellan
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments

Failing to attend or celebrate Mass is not just skipping a religious obligation — it is a sign that one’s spiritual hunger is withering, the preacher of the papal household warned members of the Roman Curia.

Mass, Communion are sources of strength, papal preacher says

March 13, 2025
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, World News, Worship & Sacraments

Going to Mass and receiving Communion are signs of putting one’s trust in God and understanding he is the one who gives the courage and strength to live life to the fullest no matter how little one has, the preacher of the papal household told members of the Roman Curia.

Hundreds prepare to be received into the Catholic Church

March 10, 2025
By Katie V. Jones
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, Local News, News, Worship & Sacraments

The archdiocese reported that 320 catechumens – those like Jay St. John who have not been baptized – and 458 candidates – those who are baptized but have not received one or more of the sacraments of initiation – participated in the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Rite of Election and the Call to Continuing Conversion liturgy at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland on March 9.

Confirmation now set for 9-year-old children in Archdiocese of Baltimore

March 4, 2025
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Worship & Sacraments

Archbishop William E. Lori is lowering the standard age for confirmation in the Archdiocese of Baltimore to 9.

Pope urges liturgical experts to avoid ‘unnecessary pomp’ in Mass

February 28, 2025
By Justin McLellan
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments

Liturgical leaders in the church must serve as humble guides to prayer rather than be strictly focused on the application of rules, Pope Francis said.

U.S. Sunday Mass attendance back to pre-pandemic levels

February 7, 2025
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments

Sunday Mass attendance in person at Catholic churches in the U.S. is back to pre-pandemic levels — although just under one quarter of the nation’s Catholics are in the pews on a regular weekly basis.

Vatican office clarifies rules for transferred holy days of obligation

January 29, 2025
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments

When a holy day of obligation falls on a Sunday and so is transferred to another day, the Catholic faithful are encouraged to attend Mass, but they are not obliged to do so, the Vatican said.

Question Corner: Is non-alcoholic church wine valid for consecration?

January 29, 2025
By Jenna Marie Cooper
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner, Worship & Sacraments

Canon 924 is telling us that the wine, which is to become the blood of Christ, must be something that can truly be considered “wine” in a strict sense.

Canon, civil law collide on seal of confession, says expert

January 28, 2025
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News, Worship & Sacraments

Proposed legislation looking to repeal clergy-penitent protections in at least two states is in a head-on collision with the church’s primary legal code, one expert told OSV News.

5 things to know about the sacrament of reconciliation

January 27, 2025
By OSV News
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Worship & Sacraments

Here are five things you might not know, others you once learned but perhaps forgot, and inspiration to recommit daily to seeking closer friendship with God through repentance and fighting sin, wherever it is found.

In this holy mystery

January 16, 2025
By Scott P. Richert
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Worship & Sacraments

With our eyes reopened by the Fathers, we can now see that meaning hidden in plain sight in “the mysteries of the Rosary” and in “the mystery of Faith” in the eucharistic prayer in the Mass.

Question Corner: Is kneeling to receive Communion allowed?

January 15, 2025
By Jenna Marie Cooper
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner, Worship & Sacraments

Receiving holy Communion while standing is the local norm for the United States, but this doesn’t mean that those who choose to kneel for Communion are doing anything wrong or “illegal.”

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