Here’s a look at the Vatican, also known as the Holy See, the spiritual and governing center of the Roman Catholic Church. Facts The full name of the country is State of Vatican City. It stands on ...

ANALYSIS: The Holy Father is accustomed to a busy daily schedule, frequent travel abroad, and a hands-on governing style.

Here is a look at the life of Pope Francis, the current pope and first non-European pontiff of the modern era. Personal Birth date: December 17, 1936 Birth place: Buenos Aires, Argentina Birth name: J ...

The psychoanalyst and writer Massimo Recalcati, on Thursday, March 27, at 7 PM, in the Cathedral of Nola, will be the guest ...

Christ bequeathed his sacrifice to the Church, not just to each individual believer. God wants to save us, not in an isolated manner, prescinding from any relationship among them, but as a people.

Cardinal Marcello Semeraro outlines the journey to canonization. Even from his hospital bed, Pope Francis wanted to make sure ...

1232 The second Vatican Council restored for the Latin ... 5 Roman Catechism II,2,5; Cf. Council Of Florence: DS 1314; CIC, cann. 204 § 1; 849; CCEO, can. 675 § 1. 6 2 Cor 5:17; Gal 6:15 ...

In a powerful display of interfaith collaboration, Catholic Religious Australia and the Executive Council of Australian Jewry ...

From 2001 to 2005, the Vatican continued to function with an increasingly frail St. John Paul II, who exposed his suffering and limitations to the world. At the time, the Secretariat of State held ...

St Pope John Paul II 2003 In 2003 Pope John Paul II issued two documents ... and be a partner in the public dialogue about its development." During the Second Vatican Council, the document Inter ...

Perhaps no author’s name has appeared in 'America' more often than Flannery O’Connor’s over the years, from a 1956 editorial ...

Pope Francis’s pontificate has been about evasion as well as empathy, and he has made it clear holy orders are reserved for ...