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

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 cardinal’s visit to Shanghai last month carries a special significance in Vatican-China relations.

For the past 40 years, ever since the new rite of the Mass, the Novus Ordo, was introduced after the Second Vatican Council with the First Latin Typical Edition of the Roman Missal, we have used ...

The catechism has its proper place here. 1232 The second Vatican Council restored for the Latin Church "the catechumenate for adults, comprising several distinct steps." 34 The rites for these ...

FacebookTweetLinkedInPrint The Bishop of Derry has expressed concern that a fundamentalist ‘Christian’ group is ‘illicitly’ ...

Since his initial accusations, he has multiplied particularly virulent diatribes against the current pope, but also against the Second Vatican Council. On June 20, in a reaction to his upcoming tr ...

Grech said the new phase’s goal “is to ensure that implementation does not happen in isolation, as if each diocese or eparchy ...

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COMMENTARY: The synodal process is being positioned as a kind of capstone project for the entire Francis papacy.

The pope's return home, after the longest hospitalization of his 12-year papacy and the second-longest in recent papal ...

A weak and frail Pope Francis has returned home to the Vatican from the hospital after a five-week, life-threatening bout of ...