Some of the most resonant and memorable phrases of Vatican II come from “Lumen Gentium,” including the description of the ...

Pope Leo XIV’s upcoming apostolic journey to Turkey and Lebanon holds both spiritual and historical significance for the ...

Archbishop Roncalli also played an important humanitarian role in relation to other minority groups, particularly helping Jewish refugees from Poland flee their homeland during World War II.

The feast of Christ the King was instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925 following his encyclical Quas Primas. Today it is ...

As an 80-year-old cradle Catholic, I've had a long, tortuous, winding and complicated relationship with the Catholic Church. I started as a pre-Vatican II altar boy. As a youth, I looked at the church ...

King Charles III is the head of the Church of England, but he prayed in public with the head of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo, during a visit to the Vatican. The service in the Sistine Chapel marked ...

Responding to recent questions raised by African bishops concerned about the practice of polygamy, the Vatican issued a ...