When a pope chooses to write an encyclical, it signifies his intention to give significant authority to what he expresses—though without invoking papal infallibility. Further reading ...

I'm a historian of the medieval papacy and editor of the forthcoming three volumes of the Cambridge History of the Papacy. So ...

(ANALYSIS) In 2023, my wife Liz embarked on a self-guided spiritual retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani, the Trappist monastery in Nelson County, Kentucky. She returned with an armful of books and ...

Each of the three cardinals represents differing political ideologies – Tedesco is a regressive extremist who would take the church back to the medieval ... American pope. The argument is ...

The head of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, set up by Pope Francis in 2014, said the Church was coming out of a "dark period" in which "Church leaders tragically failed those ...

the Apostolic Nuncio to Singapore presented two requests for clemency, one on February 28, 2005 and the second on November 1, 2005, respectively in the names of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI." ...

They observed lingering customs in rural areas of Britain and Ireland and searched medieval texts for evidence that these ... today has more to do with the English, a ninth-century pope and America’s ...

They observed lingering customs in rural areas of Britain and Ireland and searched medieval texts for evidence ... a ninth-century pope and America’s obsession with consumerism.