Bishop Dominique Rey of the Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon announced his resignation three years early at the request of Pope ...

Known for his support of the Traditional Latin Mass, Bishop Rey had also ordained diocesan clerics using the 1962 Roman ...

The appointment of both a nun as prefect and a cardinal as pro-prefect of a Vatican dicastery marks an unprecedented ...

Following the historic appointment of Sister Simona Brambilla as head of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and ...

David Lodge's novels—as well as his many works of nonfiction—made him an important figure in 20th-century British literature.

Vatican II was strikingly different from the 20 other ecclesiastical assemblies that Roman Catholicism ranks as ecumenical. It is the first council that did not face, or leave in its wake ...

Liberation theology emerged in South America in the 1960s and 1970s as a response to widespread poverty and the sliding ...

COMMENTARY: The solemn approval of Vatican II’s Constitution on the Church had a decidedly Marian tone, marked by the ...

Since the end of World War II, the Vatican has tried hard to make up for its centuries of attacks on the Jewish people, ...

Pope Francis this week made the novel decision to appoint the first-ever woman as prefect of a Vatican department, naming ...