If Roman Catholicism were to stop at this point, or to relate all else strictly to this foundation, a giant step would be taken towards the ecumenical healing of the Church.
A rather unusual petition from October 1716 is tucked away in the pope’s diocesan archives in the basilica of San Giovanni in Rome: Antonio Piervenanzi ... Yet Chadwick also noted that the same was ...
My husband, Dietrich von Hildebrand was just the opposite. Long before he converted to Roman Catholicism, he was convinced that the community of love in marriage is one of the deepest sources of ...
St. Irene of Rome was the widow of the martyr Saint Castulus, a Roman military officer who was killed for spreading the Christian faith in 286. She lived in the Roman Empire during the reign of ...
The first thing to note when reviewing Conclave is the fact that Hollywood and the Roman Catholic Church share a fascinating relationship, but neither side seems interested in discussing it. Cardinal ...
A highlight of the Jubilee in Rome is to pass through the so-called Holy Doors of at least one of four Catholic basilicas designated by the Vatican to receive plenary indulgence — the ...
Commonweal Catholics were educated, liberal-minded and middle-class, and aspired to assimilate into elite culture while bringing their Roman Catholic faith, education and sensibility with them.
The Catholic Church in Djibouti is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. There are around 5,000 Catholics and five Catholic parishes all over the ...
Life was controlled by financial constraints, geography, ignorance, and family ties. And then there was the church. The freedom to choose one’s own church was unheard of because before the mid 1500s, ...
He said as someone who had come from the Uniting Church originally, he deeply appreciated the beauty of the Catholic funeral ... what they wanted for their funeral. “The loveliest thing is when a ...