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Dei Verbum provides the linchpin for the Church’s so-called “hermeneutic of continuity,” linking the doctrines and theology of the pre-Vatican II era to the post-conciliar age and beyond.

The past 60 years have been a period of change and reflection for many in the Catholic Church, initiated by the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s an

Karol Józef Wojtyła was born in 1920 in Wadowice, Poland. 

Two issues raised most often in reports are the need to value womens contributions and the impact of clerical sex abuse

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Around the world, listening sessions for the Synod of Bishops gave many participants a sense of finally being listened to, but they also raised questions about how to promote greater inclusion in the Catholic Church while staying true to church teaching. Two of the issues raised most often in reports sent to the Vatican were the need to respect and value the contributions women make to the church and the need to face the impact of a lack of trust and credibility resulting

“The quality of homilies is almost unanimously reported as a problem.”

In his quests to stack the College of Cardinals, reshape the U.S. episcopate, and usher in “a different Church,” Pope Francis has promoted a slate of radical American cardinals with a shared [...]

The decision by officials of the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese may amount to defying the papal authority’

Toni Morrison's fiction conveyed much of the pain, sacrifice and trauma that exemplifies so much of the African-American experience—which is why it makes some white readers uncomfortable.