Profession of faith of Pope Vigilius I (552): DS 415 ... It is the most fundamental and essential teaching in the 'hierarchy of the truths of faith'. [GCD 43.] The whole history of salvation ...

Vance, a Catholic convert, accused the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops of resettling “illegal immigrants.” ...

McElroy was reportedly not the pope’s first ... Catholic social teachings. The importance of the Washington archbishopric cannot be understated. While Gregory has had a good tenure in that ...

Pope Francis named Cardinal Robert McElroy of ... D.C., to replace the retiring Cardinal Wilton Gregory. As McElroy has made headlines over the years with his views on abortion, LGBT rights ...

A saint whose teachings 'underpin the Christian faith ... Aquinas was invited to the Second Council of Lyon in 1274, where Pope Gregory X hoped to heal the 'Great Schism' between the Catholic ...

Even in the early centuries of Christianity, followers of Jesus Christ’s teachings could be outspoken ... writing letters urging Pope Gregory XI to return to Rome and restore peace to Italy ...

had progressively weakened the college of cardinals by his “eccentric nominations” and any new pope must believe the secret to Christian vitality lay in “fidelity to the teachings of Christ ...

(OSV News/Gregory A. Shemitz) The bishops have the strongest possible backup for their forceful statements. Pope Francis ... It was a teaching moment. Still, I am less concerned that our bishops ...

2] Other people further claim that the Church changed Her teaching on slavery ... towards the clergy than the laity. In 1839, Pope Gregory XVI issued a Bull, entitled In Supremo.

This is the final column submitted by Gerry O'Shea who passed away last month after a short illness. Over the course of many ...

Several scholars say Vance is promoting a simplistic misreading of the concept and that Catholic teaching requires the ... as Vatican ambassador — even as Pope Francis appointed a relatively ...