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

In 2018, Pope Francis promulgated the apostolic constitution Veritatis Gaudium, which was a document devoted to the reform of ...

A look back at the Second Vatican Council through the coverage offered by America and Commonweal offers two lessons: First, ...

The Second Vatican Council's fathers tossed the Curia's agenda and set their own. Could history repeat itself?

One of the recommendations of the first meeting of the Synod on Synodality was to explore ways to improve the quality of ...

THE usual Francis-bashers as hysterical. Heresy! He has preached that the different religions are paths to the same God. He ...

The Vatican is providing its long-awaited assessment on one of the more contested aspects of Roman Catholicism in recent ...

The Vatican on Thursday gave the green light for Catholics to continue flocking to a southern Bosnian village where children ...

Christians, regardless of denomination, have a common mandate,” said Professor Mary Getui, a member of the Pan-African ...

The literary world often seems to stand apart from the working class, but poets like Fish are keeping the tradition of ...

The pope is back in Rome after his visits to Asia and Oceania. Here’s what we learned from his historic trip. First, despite ...

(OSV News) — On the occasion of St. John Paul II’s 1984 visit to Fairbanks, Alaska, at the start of a trip to Far East ...