Pope Benedict honors Paul VI in Italian birthplace
AP - Sun Nov 8, 11:14 am ETPope Benedict XVI made a one-day pilgrimage Sunday to northern Italy to pay tribute to Paul VI, his predecessor who made him a cardinal.
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Pope Benedict XVI made a one-day pilgrimage Sunday to northern Italy to pay tribute to Paul VI, his predecessor who made him a cardinal.
More than 250 artists including Ennio Morricone and Bill Viola will meet Pope Benedict XVI this month to revive the Church's relations with the art world, a Vatican official said Thursday.
Havana - The Vatican on Saturday called on the government of Cuba to allow the Catholic Church greater access to mass media in the communist country. Our wish is for the Cuban church to have a more normal access to mass communication media, Archbis...
CatholicTV may be 50 years old, but it's getting hip to new technology to spread the gospel globally, as Pope Benedict XVI urges priests and parishes to do the same. ...
ATLANTIC CITY-- For the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, museums around the world have historic sections of the wall on display including the Vatican, United Nations Headquarters and even 13 Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museums.
The Vatican has offered to allow conservative Anglican clergy to join a special section of the Catholic Church. They would be able to retain the Anglican liturgy and a married priesthood. Some Anglican clergymen feel alienated by changes in their church over the past few years.
Milwaukee Charity Sr. Louise Akers, telling the story of how she was dismissed, after 40 years of teaching in the Cincinnati archdiocese, for not retracting her support for women’s ordination, held more than 2,000 Call to Action conference delegates spellbound here, and in the process united two women’s issues precious to many Catholics: the ban on women’s ordination and the Vatican’s secretive ...
Archbishop Raymond Burke’s Oct. 17 appointment to the powerful Congregation for Bishops offers an illustration of how in the Vatican, even the ordinary can be extraordinary.
The depth of cynicism behind the Vatican's invitation last month to right-wing Episcopalians "to enter full communion with the Catholic Church while preserving elements of the distinctive Anglican spiritual and liturgical patrimony" is best understood through one of Rome's most high-profile converts, a certain John Henry Newman.
Vatican City recognizes new saints, including a priest who ministered in Hawaii.
Using the pulpit of the Long Island Catholic newspaper, Bishop William Murphy has weighed in on the national controversy about the Vatican investigation of religious sisters in the United States.
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican defended its review of U.S. women's religious orders this week amid criticism from the sisters that the process is secretive and amounts to a crackdown.
Much has been made lately of Pope Benedict XVI's apparent lenience for "cafeteria Catholicism" on the right.
A Vatican investigation into compliance of U.S. Sisters to Catholic doctrine should not impact members of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Agnes.
Cardinal Franc Rodé, who is conducting an apostolic visitation of U.S. women religious communities, spoke about the visitation on Vatican Radio Nov. 4, Catholic News Service reported.
The St. Thomas Aquinas and the Pope John Paul II football game was a tale of two halves.