But now that's changing. "Men are staying in church," Ruth Graham said at The New York Times, "while the women are leaving at a remarkable clip." Church membership has been dropping in the United ...

Pope Francis prays during a Eucharistic celebration in the Vatican, on the final day of a summit on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church From Australian country towns to schools in Ireland and ...

Moreover, unless the Church expressly forbids ... In every blessing outside of Mass the priest should be vested in surplice and stole of the color proper to the day, unless the rubrics prescribe ...

Church services augmented by a choral contingent ... and this led to the widespread enforcement of a dress code for the choir - the surplice and cassock (a tradition originating in college choirs ...

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The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned abortion — the direct and purposeful taking of the life of the unborn child. In principle, Catholic Christians believe that all life is ...

I find him leaning over a very unfresh box and delicately lifting the surplice of a 19th-century ... di Sicilia has a large and piously decorated church. In front of the altar is a secret door ...

Under the Arab domination (from the 7th to the 13th century A. D.) they once more prospered, and developed the greatest and most extensive Christian Church of the Near East, enjoying vast political ...

In the Catholic Church, a "major exorcism" can only be carried ... the priest must wear a type of embroidered white tunic called a surplice alongside a purple stole. The person who is possessed ...

Wollock, Jeffrey 2011. John Bulwer and the Quest for a Universal Language, 1641–1644. Historiographia Linguistica, Vol. 38, Issue. 1-2, p. 37. Prior, Charles W. A ...

The Pope was the head of the Catholic Church and lived in Rome. He set out rules and guidelines that would be put into action by church leaders and personnel across Europe. An example of such a ...

There is some tolerably good land in the vicinity of the demolished church, for producing wheat, oats, and turnips; but in most other parts, the soil corresponds in sterility with the scantiness of ...