“You know there are some critics who say the pope is not courageous but unconscious, that he’s taking steps against Catholic doctrine, that he’s one step from heresy,” Pope Francis said Monday...
On Friday the stakes of an ongoing showdown between the Vatican and an Italian layman refusing an order to leave the monastery he founded were raised when Pope Francis directly intervened, asking for...
Jesus offers humanity a concrete model for holiness that can be lived each day, said Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, offering the second meditation of Lent for leaders of the Roman Curia and Vatican...
Pope Francis has named Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, a member of the Congregation for Bishops, the office that advises the pope on the nomination of bishops around the world.
bakdc U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. The case involves Chike Uzuegbunam, an evangelical Christian who, while attending Georgia Gwinnett College in 2016, sought to evangelize fellow...
Farewell ceremony at Baghdad International Airport in Baghdad and departure by plane for Rome on March 8th, 2021. Pope Francis answered several questions from journalists en route back to Rome after...
Accusing the anointers in the great plague of Milan in 1630; a scene from Manzoni's 'I promessi sposi.' Lithograph by G. Gallina after A. Manzoni. Italians could hardly avoid seeing parallels between...
Father Kyle Schnippel (right) with Father Leo Patalinghug When the ABC show put out calls for contestants in the winter of 2017, Father Schnippel applied and got accepted.