This successor will lead a Church that continues to be the largest Christian Church in the world ... It explores the development of Church hierarchy, especially the centralization of papal authority.

Faith leaders have deep and trusted relationships with the communities they serve. They are therefore ideally placed to ...

Every certainly every Christian church ... and it has nothing to do with the hierarchy of the church. The hierarchy is just not in the action at all. Yeah, I think that’s accurate.

The hierarchy is just not in the action at all ... which has been going on in every Christian church but also non-Christian churches, there is this running tension between where late modern ...

Catholic Church says those who justify killing for political or religious causes are ignoring the core commandment: “Thou ...

The earliest Christian community was an underground movement. The first pope, Peter, led from the shadows, not the throne.

I met the man who would become Pope Leo XIV in October 2023. We were standing outside the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and from my ...

I join millions of Catholics and good people on planet earth to congratulate Pope Leo XIV on his historic election as the new ...

Pope Leo XIV has echoed his predecessor’s urgent call for an end to the assault that has killed more than 52,000 Palestinians ...

Central among them are questions about the role of women, the exercise of power in the church hierarchy and the move ... the “sympathy for anti-Christian lifestyle choices” found in the ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday begin the secretive, ...