After penning a letter to the world’s cardinals asking them to focus on financial reform, urging spending cuts and ...

A deep, institutional corruption and a near-total aversion to accountability have condemned church leaders to an endless loop ...

COMMENTARY: ‘The Nihil obstat indicates that the faithful can receive a positive encouragement for their Christian life ...

In recent weeks individuals close to a scandal-plagued Peruvian lay group have lodged charges of harassment against some of ...

Catholic worshipers who claim to have seen and spoken to the Virgin Mary at a Bosnian landmark received mixed messages from the Vatican on Thursday after the Church refused to say whether their ...

COMMENTARY: In the fifth chapter of the dogmatic constitution, the Church solemnly proclaimed, for the first time, that all ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pope Francis and the Catholic Church on plans for the second and final session of the Vatican Synod on Synodality.

The Vatican is facing questions over its handling of sexual abuse allegations involving the French priest who founded the ...