A new Vatican document on Mary affirms a Scripture-based understanding of her person and her pivotal role in salvation ...

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on November 4 published Mater populi fidelis (“The Mother of the Faithful People” ...

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany addresses the faithful as the new pope in this frame from TV, at the Vatican, Tuesday, April 19 2005. Bells chimed at St. Peter's Basilica Tuesday evening, ...

In the days since Leo XIV first walked out on that Vatican balcony as the first American pope, everyone has been trying to figure out what it will mean for the Catholic Church, the U.S., the world, ...

Robert Harris explains the Vatican process that inspired his story. With Pope Francis's funeral drawing more than 200,000 expected attendees on Saturday, interest in the papal succession process has ...

After the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, "Conclave" is the first movie that comes to a lot of people's minds. But don't forget about the actual film about the late pontiff. Directed by ...

The recent death of Pope Francis I stirred memories for Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek Barbara Weiden Boyd, who recalls the kind and thoughtful man she got to know nearly forty years ago as a ...

Francis A. Sullivan, S.J., in an undated photo(CNS photo/Lee Pellegrini, Boston University) Among the issues raised at this year’s session of the Synod on Synodality was that of the role and authority ...

The arc of Vatican rhetoric on sexual issues is long, and it doesn’t bend much at all. On October 30, 1986, the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith released a letter to bishops, “On ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has exposed the political “maneuvers” used to sway votes during the two most recent elections of popes, while denying he is planning to reform the process for future ...

Pope Francis voted for Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, in the 2005 conclave that followed the death of St. John Paul II. "He was the only one who could be pope at that time," ...

ROME – Eighteen years ago, a College of Cardinals largely appointed by the pope whose reign had just ended wanted continuity, and so they elected the man who’d been the intellectual architect of the ...