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ANALYSIS In times of uncertainty, 'we cross the river by feeling out the stones with our feet.' --aphorism of Deng Xiaoping, China's paramount leader from 1978 to 1994 The collapse [...]

The religious fervor in Naples is more subdued than it once was, but in UK, the church is trying to bring in religious involvement. A miracle processional in Naples has been reintroduced to attract tourists, while the Church of England wants its members to be more enthusiastic.

ANALYSIS John Paul II was a pope of firsts, from launching World Youth Day to visiting the Rome synagogue, from leading a liturgy of repentance for the failures of Christians [...]

Giuliano della Rovere, elected Pope Julius II in 1503 by an overwhelming majority of his fellow cardinals, was the pontiff who commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine [...]

ASSISI, Italy -- Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Mass on June 17 in the piazza below St. Francis Basilica to mark the 800th anniversary of the conversion of St. Francis of […]

Christine Schenk, left, a Sister of St. Joseph and founder of FutureChurch, waits with other women outside Rome's church of St. Praxedis April 2. The group was on a FutureChurch-sponsored [...]

The U.S. bishops, once collectively a voice to be reckoned with in the corridors of U.S. power and in the ornate halls of the Vatican, are withdrawing from the national [...]

Recent weeks have offered intriguing hints that despite all-time lows in birthrates, levels of Mass attendance and vocations to the priesthood and religious life, European Catholicism may have some gas' [...]

I don't get to Rome often, but when I do I always experience it as an especially aggressive mixture of the sacred and the profane. I know that mixture can [...]

Rome--In an event underscoring both the warmth Italy feels for him and the healing of centuries-old wounds between Italy and the papacy, Pope John Paul II has become the first […]

As befits a people who have the Vatican in their midst, nine out of ten Italians call themselves Catholic. Nearly 100% are nd almost as many pass out of this [...]

ROME - Perhaps it was a little hasty to write that Pope John Paul was 'devastated' by the results of the recent Italian elect5ion (NCR, April 15). In fact he [...]

Oxford, England - Don Ennio Innocenti, an Italian priest, is angry. No publisher, religious or secular, would look at, still less accept, his account of how Benito Mussolini, dictator of [...]