What will they say to each other? How will it end? What will follow the meetings between the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, with his Vatican counterpart, Cardinal Parolin, and then with Leone XIV ...

When you read the private correspondence of Jeffrey Epstein and his myriad associates, it’s very difficult not to wonder from time to time — somewhat absurdly, as though in self-defense against the ...

This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the Second Vatican Council’s declaration on the Catholic Church’s relations with non-Christian religions. Approved on October 28, 1965, after ...

On Dec. 7, 1965, Pope Paul solemnly promulgated the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on Religious Freedom, known by its Latin incipit (opening words) as Dignitatis Humanae. The Council thereby ...

COMMENTARY: The early history of the landmark document manifests the significant doctrinal development, which led the Catholic Church to proclaim the vital importance of religious liberty for modern ...

In the document of the Second Vatican Council entitled Gaudium et Spes, the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, in article 51, one finds a reference to the concept of the human ...

Cathleen Kaveny, a professor at Boston College’s theology department and law school, delivered the keynote address at a conference hosted by Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace ...

Audio commentaries have started to become podcasts after streaming services fail to include them. Audio commentaries have started to become podcasts after streaming services fail to include them. is ...

As the Fourth of July approaches, it is perhaps a good time (is it ever a bad time?) to look back on one of the great Catholic theologians of the American democratic experiment, especially in these ...

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and his British business partner Benjamin Harnwell have been evicted from the 800-year-old mountaintop monastery in Italy where they intended to launch ...

After a protracted legal battle, the Italian culture ministry has evicted Benjamin Harnwell, a British Catholic conservative, from the 13th-century Italian monastery where he planned to launch a right ...

Robert Barron, auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles since 2015, is the most popular and influential cyber-evangelist in American Catholicism. In 2000, he also founded Word on Fire, an interesting ...