Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

Here is why a woman might never become the pope. Doctrine, tradition and law prevent the selection of a woman pope The Roman Catholic Church is built on years of doctrine, tradition and canon law ...

rather than the more traditional papal apartments. The pope does not receive a salary. As the head of the Catholic Church, all of his needs, including housing, transportation, and daily expenses ...

First, those who embrace Pope Francis’ wide-ranging, modernising changes in the Catholic church. The reform-minded pope made it possible to advance a new church culture that respected the voice and ...

The Second Vatican Council unleashed a passion for change in the Roman Catholic Church that has ... Among the first to attack the church’s traditional teaching on contraception and clerical ...

I’m more traditional than you might think ... So no one, in the end, wants to leave the Roman Catholic Church and just become the German Catholic Church or the sub-Saharan African Catholic ...

Instead of the traditional ... from high-ranking church leaders like Bishop Joseph E. Strickland of Tyler, Texas, one of his fiercest critics among U.S. Roman Catholic conservatives and an ardent ...

The pontiff said he would face up to "the questions, concerns and challenges of today’s world" and, in a nod to conservatives, he promised to preserve "the rich heritage of the Christian faith," ...