A: It is true that a devout reception of holy Communion can forgive venial (less serious) sins. Like the Catechism of the ...

For more than 40 years, Sister Monika has been living in Vadstena, Sweden, with the Bridgettine Sisters, a Catholic congregation with a long history and Nordic roots. Her vocational journey took her ...

Luton hosted its first-ever Swedish-style Pilgrimage. The initiative was born from a pre-Easter retreat pilgrimage in Vadstena, Sweden, attended by the C of E Vicars Rev ...

French Archbishop Guy de Kerimel of Toulouse defended his appointment of a priest convicted of sexually abusing a minor as diocesan chancellor, saying that he had "chosen the path of mercy." ...

In Sweden, where the Moscow Patriarchate has grown to five registered congregations, some 2,000 members and now a church, the institution’s expansion has not gone unnoticed, however.

In his Penguin book on the Early Church, Professor Owen Chadwick observed that, for the first Christians, the eucharist was “so deeply felt to be the essential expression of membership of the society ...

This week's episode of Sweden in Focus Extra for Membership+ subscribers features an interview with Magdalena Dahlborg, an editor for a Swedish-language Catholic magazine. How did the Catholic Church ...

Search follows recommendations from Church of Sweden’s national secretariat amid tensions with Russia and Sweden’s decision to join Nato.

GOTHENBURG, Sweden (AP) — Burial associations in Sweden are looking to acquire enough land for something they hope they’ll never have to do: bury thousands of people in the event of war. The … ...

The one was Protestantism. De Lubac lamented the Protestant weakening of the doctrines of the Eucharist and the Church.

Twenty couples got hitched during a five-hour wedding whirlwind at the Kiruna church in northern Sweden on Friday. The historic building is being relocated, along with the entire town, to make way ...

The king and martyr — Sweden’s patron saint — was beheaded by pagans in 1161 after receiving holy communion in a church that stood here before the cathedral was built. Unlike some of Europe’s ...