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The Vatican dicastery charged with overseeing and assisting religious orders confirmed that it plans to conduct an apostolic ...

The three-day “apostolic journey” of Pope Francis to Belgium has largely been an occasion for Belgian advocates to call on ...

Informed by their own experiences of Mass in various traditions and inflections ... Looking back to the pre-Vatican II world, there are many other traditions and practices that I would like ...

with the Vatican saying some 96% of Timorese are believers in the faith. Francis is the second pope to visit the half-island nation. Late Pope John Paul II visited the nation pre-independence in ...

Speaking from the Great Hall of the Robert F. Kennedy Building in Washington last week, Merrick Garland described criticism ...

The Vatican said organizers expected crowds between 700,000 to 750,000 to attend the Mass on Tuesday ... Late Pope John Paul ...

Those who wish to watch the mass can do so via a livestream on the official website. Pope Francis is travelling with his personal security and ministers of the Vatican state. There are about 80 ...

While at the Leopold-Franzen University’s Canisianum during Vatican II, arguably the most important ... accessible to concertgoers through his pre- concert lectures. Even when their son Alex ...

On August 12, during a Mass celebrating her assumption into heaven ... Rwanda’s Bishop Augustin Misago and the Vatican declared that, yes, the Virgin Mary had appeared at Kibeho.