Any priest may confer the blessings of the Church ... Deacons and lectors can give validly and licitly only those blessings expressly allowed by law. 2. Both constitutive and invocative blessings ...

There is to be no blessing of a new home unless those who will live in it are present. A minister who is a priest or deacon greets those present in the following or other suitable words ...

Pope Francis, who is recovering from a life-threatening bout of pneumonia, intends to give his Easter Sunday blessing, the ...

Same-sex couples take part in a public blessing ceremony in front of the Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, Germany, on Sept. 20. In Germany, individual priests have been blessing same-sex couples for ...

“It certainly has been a blessing for me and the priests tell me it has been a blessing ... and I already had received some invitations to give retreats and conferences," he added.

“The King will give his seal of approval possibly next week to Father Pardo's appointment.” The report suggests the backing of a Spanish monarch for a priest from Gibraltar has been seen as a ...

In a landmark ruling approved by Pope Francis, the Vatican has announced Roman Catholic priests are now able to administer blessings to same-sex couples. But the decision is conditional - as it's ...

Missionary Dominican priest Fr. Paul Reagan Talavera O.P. said a Eucharistic celebration during Palm Sunday begins with the blessing of palm fronds ... Not to take life, but to offer his life, to give ...

Pope Francis, who is recovering from a life-threatening bout of pneumonia, intends to give his Easter Sunday blessing, the ...