The Church, he said, in seeking to renew herself in the Council, needed to deal with this issue. As Cardinal Bea’s speech forcefully indicated, the Catholic Church’s desire for a warmer ...

The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his ...

If I told you that I visited Notre-Dame de Paris in March of this year and that, while there, I had begun to get this strange ...

It may surprise most people to know that there are many different rites within the Catholic Church. Before discussing ... The eastern rites which have a separate code of canon law, are completely ...

Provisions regarding their selection, rank, roles, and prerogatives are detailed in Canons 349 to 359 of the Code of Canon Law of the Catholic Church. Following that of the Pope, the title of ...

Di Sheehan was a young, unwed mother in the 1970s, and was told her baby died at birth. She signed discharge papers when she ...

His face looked swollen and there were bandages visible on both arms underneath his white cassock ... The pope had continued to lead the Church from hospital. He was making usual appointments of ...

As a low-church Baptist, I have limited knowledge about the use and symbolism of Catholic, Anglican ... the muddied perspectives of dress codes in Evangelical churches. How a pastor dresses ...

The Catholic Church leaders in the two neighboring countries that were ... to honor their sacred obligation to the people of South Sudan and resist any temptation to revert to arms.” In their ...

When a prosecutor began chasing an accused serial rapist, she lost her job but unravelled a scandal. Why were the police ...

Yet he said he would be remembered not for his military victories, but for his domestic reforms, especially the Code Napoleon ... the aristocracy and the Catholic Church during the Reign of ...