COMMENTARY: ‘The Vatican’s silence on human rights and religious freedom in China is profoundly disappointing and dangerously ...

“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 ...

Explore the ecumenical dialogue initiated by the Catholic Church post-Vatican II, focusing on the challenges of papal primacy ...

“The central insight of Vatican II is that we are all enjoying equal dignity as Christians by our baptism,” the Canadian cardinal shared with EWTN News hosts Catherine Hadro and Matthew Bunson.

“Well, this wasn’t it.” Vatican II was the council convened in 1962 to modernize the church for an increasingly secular world. It ordered epochal revisions – changing the language of the ...

Because the Vatican has published very little over the centuries about its finances and investments, most people don't know how it makes money as a sovereign city-state with its own economy.

Vatican summit avoids discussing women clergy ... The Catholic Church has an all-male clergy, and Pope John Paul II declared it had no authority to ordain women as priests. But church historians ...

The priest subsequently completed the Rotale Study at the Tribunal of the Roman Rota, the Vatican’s highest appellate court, in 2014. He also obtained a licentiate in moral theology from the former ...

The apostolic letter begins with a brief summary of the teaching of the Second ... have a stable and permanent character. Vatican II, acknowledging their usefulness and potential, recommended ...

Sometimes the image is shared with captions alleging that it shows Vatican figures worshipping the devil, while at other times it's shared as a thumbnail for YouTube videos claiming to reveal ...