By Elisabetta Povoledo The pope will donate the 2,500-year-old pieces held by the Vatican Museums to the archbishop of Athens, a gesture that increases pressure on the British Museum to act over ...

But they’re also providing details about another contentious chapter in Vatican history: the scandal over the founder ... dated Oct. 2, 1956 which omits any reference to Maciel being prohibited ...

"This says something about the ground shifting under the feet of Vatican II Catholics ... during the first so-called ...

After Vatican II, a number of the most prominent periti ... called the 1979 inquiry into Father Schillebeeckx’s works “a scandal” because “it has persuaded many that the concern of ...

Pope Francis has weighed in on the latest sex assault revelations that have further discredited a legendary French priest, ...

even as he indirectly acknowledged an abuse scandal involving its Nobel Peace Prize-winning hero. Timorese jammed Francis' motorcade route into town from the airport, waving Vatican and Timorese ...

This chapter examines the preconciliar attitudes and events that led to interreligious dialogue featuring as a major pastoral teaching of the post-Vatican II church. The reception of the council’s ...

Vatican II was the catalyst for a significant realignment of ministerial life in the Catholic Church. Although the council did not undertake a thoroughgoing revision of episcopal or presbyteral ...

Pope Francis has arrived in East Timor to encourage its recovery from a bloody and traumatic past and celebrate its ...

The scandal set off ... but the Vatican revealed in 2022 that he had been sanctioned for sexually abusing young boys. Belo was allowed by St. John Paul II to retire quietly in 2002, and the ...

The scandal set off ... but the Vatican revealed in 2022 that he had been sanctioned for sexually abusing young boys. Belo was allowed by St. John Paul II to retire quietly in 2002, and the ...

That includes punishments handed down by John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis. The Vatican has been notoriously quiet on how it handled the abuse scandal internally. But a U.N. committee is now ...