COMMENTARY: ‘Apostolicam Actuositatem’ manifests a profoundly renewed vision of the role of the laity in the Church’s saving mission.

A Franciscan priest in Vietnam says the Second Vatican Council spurred a deep renewal of the local Catholic Church that spanned years of division and war. The Vietnam War lasted almost 20 years until ...

But the pre-Vatican II Church was not the antebellum South. It was beholden to no egregious wrong. And in human history, where do cultural revivals come from?

At one month since his election to the papacy May 8, Pope Leo XIV has so far demonstrated a continuity with his predecessor, Pope Francis, while also carving out his own personal style ...

Work by the Italian artist is seen by millions of people around the world each year in places such as the Vatican and the ...

The late Pope imposed the curbs after claims that the traditional mass, last set out in a pre-Vatican II 1962 Missal, was being used as a divisive rallying point against liberal changes and ecumenical ...

The debate in the Catholic Church over the celebration of the old Latin Mass is heating up just as Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate is getting under way ...

The Vatican says leaked documents that seemingly undermined Pope Francis’ stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass ...

The Vatican Museums has unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms. These are the spectacularly ...

As specialists cleaned and studied the rooms in the Apostolic Palace, they learned new information about the Renaissance ...

He has only been in office for a month, but every word and action of Pope Leo XIV has been analyzed extensively by the media trying to determine the mentality of the new pontiff, elected on May 8 ...