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Sacramentals are a very distinctive part of the Catholic Church experience. Learn about the different sacred objects and holy actions that Catholics use in everyday life.

The Sacrament of Confirmation fills the baptized soul with the life of the Holy Spirit.

Inauguration ceremonies in Europe in the Middle Ages were heavy with symbolism, promoting the legitimacy of the king and the concept of kingship.

The speaker in Sonnet 3 muses on how unlikely it seems that a plain singer such as herself would begin a relationship with a person who attracted royalty.

Catholics believe that God can be encountered not only though the scriptures and through his creation, but also through certain ritual actions called sacraments.

There is little order in the timing of the General Councils of the church.

Easter, for Catholics, begins on Ash Wednesday. Forty days before the blessed event, Catholics begin praying and fasting like Jesus did.