The pope emphasized promoting and safeguarding the integrity of Catholic doctrine in matters of faith and morals.

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, warned that blogs and online ...

A health report in The Washington Post claimed that Catholic hospitals are gaining more influence in the medical industry and will soon be forcing a majority of Americans to be treated according to ...

VATICAN CITY— Will the Synod on Synodality result in changes to established Church teaching? But some participants may be using the synodal process to try to change something arguably even more ...

What are the responsibilities of the Catholic Church when considering the historical realities of settler colonialism in what we now call the Americas? This question lies at the heart of recent ...

Indigenous people in the U.S. and Canada had mixed reactions to the Vatican's repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery, a series of 15th-century papal bulls that legitimized colonial exploitation, but ...

As Pope Francis reaches out to Catholics around the world in an effort to reinvigorate the church, the Vatican faces a wide ideological gap with popularly held beliefs in many countries, a new poll ...

Gold crosses, priceless art, sprawling cathedrals—there’s no denying the Catholic Church is rich. It built its massive wealth ...

This past September, Pope Francis appointed 28 new consultants for the dicastery, headed since July 2023 by Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández. Pope Francis meets with members of the Vatican’s Dicastery ...

A Polish archbishop said Thursday one difficulty of synodality lies in distinguishing pastoral practice — which can be adapted to different cultural circumstances — from Church doctrine. “In doctrine, ...

Catholic bishops from around the world are meeting this month at the Vatican to discuss possible reforms, including the potential for a greater role of women in the church. It’s part of a years-long ...

During the period that Saint John Paul II was pope from the late 1970s through 2005, he apologized and asked forgiveness for the history of Christian slave-holding and for the injustices inflicted by ...