Pope Francis presided over an open-air mass in Brussels on Sunday, capping a three-day visit to Belgium that grappled with ...

“The Way Forward: Pope Francis, Vatican II, and Synodality,” which took place March 3-4, brought together 80 participants—including cardinals, bishops, and other Catholic Church leaders, as well as ...

The Vatican on Tuesday unveiled the theme of the next international World Youth Day, which will be in Seoul, South Korea, in ...

After events in Luxembourg today, the Pope’s four-day trip will continue in Belgium, where he will visit three cities to mark ...

An estimated 600,000 people packed a seaside park in East Timor for Pope Francis' Mass — a figure nearing half of the small ...

While today’s scholars tend to focus in their study of Vatican II on “what happened at the council” or on how the implementation of the council’s decrees played out, a less developed but ...

Pope Francis celebrated a mass for hundreds of thousands of faithful in East Timor on Tuesday, rallying nearly half the ...

"The School of Athens," which decorates the library and study of Pope Julius II in the Vatican Museums, can again be seen by the public after two years of restoration. The fresco, begun in 1508 ...

John Paul II prayed 35 years ago during the nation ... the Vatican had predicted as many as 750,000. Once the Mass got under way, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni cited crowd estimates by local ...

After Vatican II, however, the more individually oriented ... on the details of eternal punishment. With the advent of mass media creating widespread exposure to the atrocities of war, people ...

Then came Vatican II (1962-1965). The council recommended a warm and fervent devotion to Mary ... In many places, Marian devotions (novena services or the rosary) were replaced by an evening Mass (a ...