Many sacred beliefs of our Catholic faith can be traced to the 21 ecumenical councils held since the fourth century.

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Looking for World War II in Singapore means peering through a fast, feverish, imaginative city, for a slow, old, and ...

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Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Brendan Leahy of Limerick to Vatican department for inter-faith relations. The 47th Bishop ...

Pope Francis established a strong reputation as a workaholic, a tendency that he followed to the point of working from his hospital room earlier this year while deathly ill. But this July, Pope Leo ...

Pope Leo XIV has arrived at the papal summer retreat of Castel Gandolfo to start a six-week vacation. He's giving the hilltop ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ outside Rome's Basilica of St. John Lateran June 22, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Catholic priests will now be able to celebrate Mass “for the care of creation” after the Vatican ...

John Paul II, now St. John Paul II ... perhaps what drew Pope Francis to swiftly raise his standing at the Vatican as the Pontiff saw the dying of the light. In Hope, Francis’ last book, he wrote that ...

Denoël packs an extraordinary and at times overwhelming amount of detail into this enthralling history of espionage and intrigue surrounding the papacy since the start of World War II.