Catechism of the Catholic ChurchSecond EditionPart TwoThe Celebration of the Christian MysterySection TwoThe Seven Sacraments of the Church Thursday, July 10, 2025 A service of EWTN News ...

What it did not find time to do was to stop the abuse of children by Catholic priests.A church founded by a man who instructed his followers to “suffer little children” is therefore now better ...

Francis had led the Roman Catholic church since Benedict XVI resigned in 2013. Born in Argentina, he is the first pope from the southern hemisphere, and the only non-European pope in nearly 1,300 ...

Priests, bishops, and cardinals preside at Holy Mass with the College of Cardinals for the Opening of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in October 2023 in Vatican City.

Pope Francis died Monday, leaving behind a legacy as "Pope of the People" and a change agent within the Catholic Church. Austen Ivereigh's The Great Reformer was published just a year into Pope ...

This is always a danger with wide historical surveys, and MacCulloch’s final section, on contemporary Church history—passages on the Catholic Church’s sexual-abuse scandals, the Gay ...

The Catholic Church’s official position on same-sex marriage and homosexuality is morally wrong and theologically unsound. One day, a pope will admit as much and he will apologise for not ...

Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons. But he upheld it in other areas, such as abortion and celibacy for priests.