St. Albert the Great, the teacher of St. Thomas Aquinas, was an assiduous Dominican whose accomplishments and gifts to the ...

With great joy. We were only expecting an apostolic exhortation, but it seems that Pope Francis wants to summarize the spirit of his pontificate by writing an encyclical, invoking the highest ...

Pope Francis was raised in the city’s middle-class Flores neighborhood from the mid-1930s through the ’50s, a time period that saw Argentina’s wealth gap grow. At the same time, so did the shantytowns ...

It seems like everything we do is controlled by a calendar. Appointments, classes, meetings, and services are all events we ...

Up to then, cardinals had been involved in liturgical functions in the great ... the pope was dead, as rumors of a selection ...

(Photo: Mossot/Wikimedia Commons) The Vatican announced October 21 the publishing date and title of Pope Francis's new encyclical, "Dilexit Nos" (“He Loved Us”), an encyclical on the human and ...

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Quite the contrast, which makes for a great setting." When cardinals assemble to elect a pope, they vote as often as four times a day, especially in the first day or two, to determine which ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Pope Francis, background center, poses with the participants to the second session of the 16th General ...