COMMENTARY: What began as the Second Vatican Council’s statement on Judaism became a wider message of fraternity toward all ...

The second, and even more significant, move toward reverence was turning ad orientem, that is, the priest at the altar facing ...

During his long and fruitful pontificate, St. John Paul II embraced the entire world, which stands yet again in need of his ...

Schoolteacher Irene Garza, 25, murdered by a Catholic priest in McAllen ... Note the date: 1960. Before Vatican II. Before the sexual revolution. Before all the usual “explanations” of ...

He rose in the Roman Catholic Church before allegations of abusing minors and seminarians and an investigation led Pope ...

Carlo Acutis will become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint at a solemn canonization Mass on April 27 in St.

The Pope has appeared before cheering crowds at the Vatican. It was the pontiff's ... at the end of the celebration of a mass for the Catholic Church's Jubilee year. Image: Pope Francis waved ...

Journalists and Vatican officials who have covered multiple pontificates describe the challenges, secrecy and unprecedented ...

Head of Catholic ... II’s life, highlighting the need to balance protecting his fragile health with keeping him in the public eye. The head of the Catholic Church returned home to the Vatican ...