For the vast majority of the multitudes active in diaspora communities, maintaining our identity is a constant challenge.

Comfortably dressed in undershirt and shorts, the Supreme Bishop was drinking ice-cold beer in his Manila house when the official word was brought to him: the Manila Court of the First Instance ...

St. Irenaeus, "Against All Heresies," c. 180 A.D. "In this order, and by this succession, the ecclesiastical Tradition from the Apostles, and the preaching of the Truth, have come down to us.

These conclave engravings are without exception centred on the floorplan of the apostolic palace in the Vatican, with numbered keys to the positions where each cardinal was based, in pop-up timber ...

Video. Following the death of Pope Francis, Vatican officials sealed his residences at Casa Santa Marta and the Apostolic Palace, following procedures observed after the death of a pontiff.

These norms, detailed in the apostolic constitution Universi Dominici Gregis, outline what happens during the interregnum and how the next pope is selected. During this transitional period, the ...

Furthermore, the office of Bishop became the term used starting in the second century by most Christian movements to describe apostolic succession. Hence, even though they usually did not use the term ...

Let’s go to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Vatican II’s Lumen Gentium in section 20, and Pope Clement (A.D. 80), to give us the writings that explain why Christ ...

Apostolic succession is the belief that bishops embody apostolic authority through an uninterrupted and unbroken lineage from the original Apostles. Bishops are deemed to retain special authority ...

The ordination of Debra Maria Flint, a deacon and Catholic feminist writer serving the English and Scottish border area, will take place on 1 February on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne. Debra will ...

“Jerome Fernando, who has no official apostolic succession in the Catholic Church, is not a Catholic bishop,” said a Dec. 10 statement signed by Bishop J. D. Anthony Jayakody, general secretary of the ...

The household of God, says Paul, is built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets (Eph. 2:20), and, as E. A. Litton has observed, a foundation does not repeat itself. It is, indeed, evident ...