A “cloak of silence.” As Fondacio prepares to mark its 50th anniversary May 30, that’s the phrase current leaders use to describe the long-standing hush surrounding the early history of ...

He welcomes you into his office, a rare gesture. In the Vatican, custom is clear: visitors are not to be received where a cardinal works. Grech decided long ago to set that rule aside. At the ...

Francis’ death sets the stage for electing a new pope. Within 15 to 20 days, the cardinals will assemble in a conclave behind closed doors in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, following the ...

"Ngalakh" is traditionally prepared by Christians during Easter and shared with Muslim neighbors as a cherished symbol of interfaith harmony and cultural unity. (Photo by Charles Senghor) For the ...

The dome of St. Peter's Basilica as seen from the Vatican Museums (Photo by Vyacheslav Argenberg / CC BY 4.0) From the first echoes reaching from the general congregations, the unity of the church ...

Despite the First Council of Nicaea in 325, which condemned Arianism and affirmed Christ’s divinity, many continued to deny that Jesus was truly God. A few decades later, the divinity of the ...

December 31st was not just the death of Benedict XVI. It was also the death of a fragile truce that has existed the past decade between two factions inside the Vatican and the worldwide Catholic ...

The election of Leo XIV signals a new “Catholic moment” for the United States —or the continuation of one—but also opens the door to rethinking what “America” means for the world in ...

and the name of Peter’s successor.

On the morning of February 14, the handful of journalists in the Holy See’s Press Office, as they do every day, noted the first official statements. It is shortly after 9:30 a.m., and Slovak ...

Interview: Jean-Marc Lavergne, one of two French judges appointed by the United Nations to serve in the Khmer Rouge trials in Phnom Penh reflects on one of the 20th century’s greatest atrocities.

Despite Sweden’s deeply secular culture, Catholicism is experiencing steady growth, according to Cardinal Anders Arborelius of Stockholm. "The Catholic Church remains a small minority but is ...