being self-centred,'" the Vatican said in Pope Francis' biography. Here's a look at Jesuit order. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) founded the Roman Catholic religious order known as the Society of ...

The papal apartment, which is a series of rooms wrapping around the Vatican’s Sixtus V Courtyard, was the traditional home of ...

The Catholic Church doesn't have a new Pop as the first day of the conclave ends with the cardinals not electing a successor ...

The Jesuit who once ministered to Buenos Aires slum dwellers ... His appointments of women to high positions in the Vatican and elsewhere did not satisfy feminists' demand for female priests. And on ...

The choice of name has sparked speculation, as the last Pope Leo established the Vatican Observatory in the late 19th century ...

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Michael W. Higgins is the Basilian Distinguished Fellow of Contemporary Catholic Thought at the University of Toronto’s St.

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"The worst thing that could happen to the Church, he has said on various occasions, 'is what de Lubac called spiritual worldliness,' which means, 'being self-centred,'" the Vatican said in Pope ...