This, then — love it or leave it — is what popes are for, according to the Catechism: keeping the bishops in step, keeping ...

Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the shore; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to them, ...

The world is watching every word and move of the new head of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV, formerly known as Robert ...

Like the other ceremonies and traditions that accompany the advent of a new pope, his newly chosen name will be imbued with centuries of Catholic history and dissected for its many layers of meaning.

Now what? Easter is over, put away the Sunday-going-to-meeting duds, say goodbye to the relatives who ate up everything in ...

Intriguingly, the Beloved Disciple only appears in the narrative after Lazarus is raised from the dead. It also explains why the one scholars call the “BD” can look into the empty tomb on ...

(CNN) — Like the other ceremonies ... how will it be announced? St. Peter, the first pope and one of the 12 apostles, was renamed from his birth name of Simon by Jesus, but this was before ...