COMMENTARY: Approved on the same day as ‘Lumen Gentium’ and ‘Unitatis Redintegratio,’ ‘Orientalium Ecclesiarum’ manifests the ...
Since it became independent in 1929, Vatican City has been the world’s smallest state. Every evening the gates close, leaving ...
Historian Yvonnick Denoël delves into recently declassified documents for his book 'Vatican Spies', revealing ... starting from World War II, turned the Holy See into a hotbed of spies on ...
Vatican II did not intend to suppress popular devotions ... These adaptations usually involved a simplification of the rosary. In a significant book on the renewal of Marian devotion, Msgr. Vergilio ...
Starting with reporting on the dramatic changes ushered in by Vatican II that affected every Catholic parish, this book tells the story of courageous journalists who banded together to report on ...
His latest book — he has authored and co-authored some 90 different titles — was only meant to be released after his death, but the Vatican’s new Jubilee of Hope year, which began last month ...
Over the next few years, leading to December 2025, we will be marking the 60th anniversary of the unfolding of the Second Vatican Council. This period offers us a special opportunity to look back ...