Through baptism and confirmation, the faithful are “more perfectly bound to the Church” and endowed “with special strength” by the Holy Spirit, the pope said.
While the religiously unaffiliated are on the rise globally, something curious is also happening: Some dioceses have reported significant upticks in adults preparing to enter the Catholic Church this Easter.
A tragic incident involving the rescue of an altar boy occurred March 13 during a Lenten retreat in the coastal town of General Villamil Playas, in Ecuador’s Guayas …
