COMMENTARY: As the Catholic Church marks the 150th anniversary of Pastor Aeternus, it is an occasion for us to be grateful for the gift of the teaching authority of the Church, especially that of the ...

COMMENTARY: Although the 150-year-old document affirmed the definition of papal infallibility, that does not touch the daily life of the Church in the same way as does the affirmation of the universal ...

On Friday, I began my review of Jesuit Fr. John O'Malley's Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church, examining what the 19th century church was reacting against. This set the ...

Pope Paul VI greets a child as he visits the parish of Jesus the Divine Master in Rome April 2, 1972. (Credit: Giancarlo Giuliani/ Catholic Press Photo via CNS.) Listen ROME – Over the past few days, ...

Since the First Vatican Council of 1870, it has been a dogma of the Roman Catholic Church that the Pope, when he speaks ex cathedra on matters of faith or morals, is infallible. In the most ...

The reason why the 2024 edition of the Vatican yearbook has re-inserted "Patriarch of the West" as one of the historical titles of the pope appears to be a response to concerns expressed by Orthodox ...