COMMENTARY: Approved on the same day as ‘Lumen Gentium’ and ‘Unitatis Redintegratio,’ ‘Orientalium Ecclesiarum’ manifests the ...

Though the most widely known royal pets may be Queen Elizabeth II’s brigade of Pembroke Welsh Corgis, the late monarch’s ...

As Catholic Christians, we are taught to forgive others, to reconcile with our neighbor, to seek out amicable ways to end grudges and angry separations; yet we have been part of a grudge ...

Today in History for Jan. 25: ...

But Pope St. Leo I, following an ancient Latin and Alexandrian ... the divine substance, essence or nature.' [Lateran Council IV (1215): DS 804.]" 254. "The divine persons are really distinct ...

During the First Italian War from 1494 to 1498, Pope Alexander VI had taken possession ... Julius II had died on February 21 and was replaced with Leo X, who sought a peaceful resolution to ...

That is no evidence that Pope Joan ever existed, and no space in the papal timeline for her to fit into. Saint Leo IV died on 17 July 855 AD and his successor, Benedict III, had been elected by late ...

The House of Medici was an Italian banking family that rose to become one of the most powerful political families … Continue ...

The picture of the Holy Father with the elephants inevitably evokes the memory of Annone, a majestic 4-year-old albino elephant from India, who five centuries ago was the pet of Pope Leo X and ...

Reflecting on the Prologue of John’s Gospel, the Pope reminded the faithful that Jesus, the Word Incarnate, is ‘the light that shines in darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.