In choosing his motto and coat of arms, Leo references the Order of St. Augustine, to which he belongs. He uses the ...

Introduction: Between Divine Will and Human Calculation The Catholic Church insists that its popes are chosen not by ...

The word is derived from the Greek words meaning “initiation into hidden things.” ...

Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — ...

The Holy Spirit is thus revealed as another divine ... came to recognize and receive the Symbol of 381. The use of this formula in the Creed was gradually admitted into the Latin liturgy (between ...

Filipinos from across the globe gathered Thursday in St. Peter’s Square to witness history as Cardinal Robert Prevost became ...

For us, as Hispanics who are suffering in the United States, it gives us great hope to believe that this next pope will be ...

Cardinal Arlindo Gomes Furtado, bishop of Cape Verde, weren't the times ripe for an African Pope? "For me, the Church is ...

In the UK church bells which had remained silent during the war, rang again on VE Day in 1945. This is the story ...

161 504 Jesus is conceived by the Holy Spirit in the Virgin Mary's womb because ... 169 507 At once virgin and mother, Mary is the symbol and the most perfect realization of the Church: "the ...

The Bishop of Tandag urged voters in his diocese to vote for candidates who are imbued with five essential virtues of ...