Pope Francis set out on his 22nd foreign trip on Jan.
For nearly eight years, until his decision to resign on the last day of February 2013, Joseph Ratzinger was Pope Benedict XVI, the most visible exponent of Catholicism in the world—a universal pastor and renowned theologian, who presented his ideas and exhortations in homilies and speeches around
Pope Francis has written a new apostolic exhortation on “the call to holiness in the contemporary world.”
There is some historical evidence for the existence of women deacons in the Roman Catholic Church.
Thomas Merton (1915-1968), perhaps Catholicism’s greatest 20th century spiritual writer, captivated a generation with the story of his conversion and journey into monastic life, The Seven-Storey Mountain.