“[T]he Church has always had the duty of scrutinizing the signs of the times and of interpreting them in the light of the Gospel.” Over the past 60 years, this famous line from Vatican II’s Gaudium et ...

Modern society is formulating an "anti-Christian creed" and punishing those who resist it with "social excommunication," Benedict XVI has said in a new biography, published in Germany May 4. In a wide ...

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn attends a press conference to present the post-synodal apostolic exhortation ' Amoris Laetitia' (The Joy of Love), at the Vatican, on April 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew ...

"What is Christianity?" a book of essays written by retired Pope Benedict XVI from 2014 to 2022, was released in Italian in late January. In the preface, Pope Benedict asked that the book not be ...

Soon after Pope Benedict XVI was laid to rest in the crypt of St. Peter's Basilica, an Italian publisher released early copies of a book by the late pope's secretary. Archbishop Georg Gänswein's book, ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis met on Monday with Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, the longtime secretary of Pope Benedict XVI who was a key figure in his recent funeral but who has raised eyebrows with an ...