When Pope Paul VI solemnly reaffirmed the Catholic Church's condem nation of "artificial birth control" in his 1968 encyclical ... papacy's temporal power, when medieval and Renaissance popes ...

Clearly, "lifestyles of the rich and religious" doesn't cut it for Pope Francis ... to live like a prince or medieval monarch, even if he inherited the place from his predecessor," said the ...

Ralph Fiennes is superb as the cardinal ... Pope; and Venice’s Cardinal Tedesco (Sergio Castellitto) is even more reactionary and seemingly determined to drag the Church back to the Middle Ages.

By Bishop Pablo Virgilio “Ambo” David How does one address a cardinal? Well, it depends. If you are still living in the medieval times when the Pope was regarde ...

Cardinal Victor Fernández also stated that the female diaconate question, although Pope Francis considers it not “mature,” is ...

My students tend to imagine the Middle Ages as something like ... Enemies of Pope Urban VI, for example, argued a telltale sign of tyranny was his uncontrollable anger, which disqualified him ...

What Conclave audiences will see are the fruits of a nearly decade-long effort, filled with plenty of Hail Marys and divine ...

EIGHTIES, when Timothy Radcliffe was Prior of Blackfriars in Oxford, he was sometimes invited to preach to undergraduates at Sunday Mass. The ...

Ralph Fiennes stars as Cardinal Lawrence in director Edward Berger’s CONCLAVE, a Focus Features release. Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features. © 2024 All Rights Reserved. The Pope is dead, and ...

Some films are literal in how they portray the human condition while others are metaphorical, but the best films use the ...

This meeting was called at the initiative of the cardinal ... by his absence from a meeting scheduled for last week. “I’m not known in the Church for being a closed-minded medieval, am I?