Lutheran church Rev. Martin Junge, says relations between the Lutheran and Catholic churches have reached an epoch-making turning-point.
A papal encyclical is rare. It is among the highest levels of a pope’s authority. It will be 50 to 60 pages long; it’s a big...
On Monday, as he flew on-board the papal airplane, Pope Francis made a curious comment about his own death when he said "Two or three years...
The Holy See received Delegations of the two countries in the Vatican last October and provided its good offices to facilitate a constructive dialogue on delicate...
There are no verses in the bible that even hints that the soul of an animal goes to Heaven when it dies. In fact, there is...
Was there a secret plot to elect Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio at the papal conclave last year? Catholic conservatives say there was.
There is a hardcore, full-court press happening right now to unify all Christian denominations under the banner of the Roman Catholic Church, and the charge is...
Religious leaders from a half-dozen faiths signed a new Vatican initiative Tuesday to end modern-day slavery by 2020, declaring that human trafficking, organ trafficking and forced...
Pope Francis said on Sunday that equating Islam with violence was wrong and called on Muslim leaders to issue a global condemnation of terrorism to help...
Pope Francis stood Saturday for two minutes of silent prayer facing east in one of Turkey's most important mosques, a powerful vision of Christian-Muslim understanding at...
Pope Francis called for inter-religious dialogue "so that there will be an end of all forms of fundamentalism".
"God always forgives, but the earth does not," the Argentine pope told the Second International Conference on Nutrition (CIN2) in Rome, a three-day meeting aimed at...
Pope Francis formally announced his intention to attend the World Meeting of Families – Philadelphia 2015, set to be held September 22-27, 2015
In a video clip released last week entitled “Do You Love Santa Claus,” Cameron stated that “maybe someone like Santa Claus is actually on our team.”
The conference will be held Nov. 17-19 at the Vatican, and is expected to feature more than 30 speakers from over 20 countries. According to the...
Any doubt that times are changing ended with last month's Vatican synod, or church council, which brought hundreds of bishops and other Catholics to Rome for...
The Catholic Church no longer teaches creationism - the belief that God created the world in six days - and says that the account in the...
Catholic bishops scrapped their landmark welcome to gays Saturday, showing deep divisions at the end of a two-week meeting sought by Pope Francis to chart a...
In a dramatic shift in tone, a Vatican document said on Monday that homosexuals had "gifts and qualities to offer" and asked if Catholicism could accept...
“How is my relationship with my guardian angel? Do I listen to him? Do I wish him good morning? Do I say: 'protect me during sleep'?...
If you're a Catholic Francis says that " today we can go forward with a hope: the hope that our Mother Mary, steadfast at the Cross,...
"Humanity needs to weep and this is the time to weep," Francis said in the homily of a Mass during a visit to Italy's largest war...
Pope Francis said today that “Mary is a true mother who gives us life in Christ, and in the communion of the Holy Spirit, brings us...
"Don't proselytize; respect others' beliefs. “We can inspire others through witness so that one grows together in communicating. But the worst thing of all is religious...
