We talked to a Catholic priest about what it's like to enter the hospital rooms of isolated COVID-19 patients to provide the Anointing of the Sick.

EWTN News, Inc. is the world’s largest Catholic news organization, ... “CCC 1514 The Anointing of the Sick "is not a sacrament for those only who are at the point of death.

Vatican City, Feb 26, 2014 / 05:06 am. In his Wednesday general audience Pope Francis gave a brief catechesis on the sacrament of the anointing of the sick, noting that its purpose is to bring ...

Father Michael Trail had administered the anointing of the sick many times in his first three years as a priest in the Archdiocese of Chicago. ... Catholic take on faith and culture from America.

If Pope John Paul II received the Roman Catholic sacrament known as the anointing of the sick late Thursday, as some media reported, the ritual could be another signal of his failing health. Yet ...

Gary Campbell has received the Roman Catholic Church's sacrament of the anointing of the sick -- formerly called the last rites or extreme unction -- three times.In 1999, before surgery to remove ...

Archbishop Leonard P. Blair of Hartford, Conn., chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Divine Worship, attends a Nov. 15, 2022, session of the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of ...

A priest administers the Anointing of the Sick. | Kristina Ismulyani/Shutterstock. By Jonah McKeown St. Louis, Mo., Nov 13, 2022 / 10:00 am ...

The sacrament of the anointing of the sick is not just for those who are nearing the end of their life, Pope Francis said. "Let us remember that the anointing of the sick is one of the 'sacraments of ...

St. Joseph Cathedral, 401 Main St., will offer the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick on Sunday following the 10:30 a.m. Mass. This sacrament provides strength and grace to ...

The Catechism of the Catholic Church on the sacrament of the sick: 1526 “Is any among you sick? Let him call for the presbyters of the Church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil ...