The Second Vatican Council, the great revolution in the life of the modern Catholic Church ... II, to rein in the more radical experiments and alterations, to prove that Catholicism before ...

“If the Roman Catholic Church had looked 450 years ... On this score, all that has happened is that Vatican II has raised hopes for unity where there were none before. The council’s work ...

Before Pope Francis, Pope Benedict XVI was the leader of the Catholic Church. Benedict ... his immediate predecessors—Popes Benedict, John Paul II, and Paul VI—were much more defensive ...

VATICAN CITY — In their pre-conclave sessions ... battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the Catholic Church. Pope Francis sought to drag the church out of the bedroom, de ...

The Vatican ... the Catholic Church’s annual pilgrimage to Jesus’ Baptismal site. Parolin also anointed the church’s altar, dedicating it as where the relics of Pope St. John Paul II and ...

Even before the election of the first American pope, Roman Catholic influence on U.S. tech and AI policy seldom, if ever, had ...