But the Nazis quickly violated its articles. In Lent 1937 Pope Pius XI issued the encyclical "Mit brennender Sorge" (With burning sorrow) with the help of German bishops and Cardinal Pacelli ...

The Vatican has entered into an agreement with China aimed at ending division between two Catholic communities ...

Here’s a look at the Vatican, also known as the Holy See, the spiritual and governing center of the Roman Catholic Church. Facts The full name of the country is State of Vatican City. It stands on ...

Every 25 years, believers from around the world flock to Rome to step through one of its four holy doors and have their sins ...

Blessed Pius IX’s successor ... entrusted the Divine Child when Herod loosed his assassins against him,” Pope XI continued. “He won for himself the title of ‘The Just,’ serving thus ...

A country is gripped by bitter political partisan debates and insecurities about its own economy. A nonconformist, ...

Villegas. Known as the “Little Flower” and widely revered as the patroness of missions, St. Thérèse was canonized by Pope Pius XI at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome on May 17, 1925 ...

In pontifical Latin, prepared for him, as always, by his Congregation for Latin Letters, Pope Pius XI last week solemnly flayed Nudism. Speaking before Lenten preachers on the eve of Ash Wednesday ...

(Christ the King was instituted in 1925 by Pope Pius XI.) Others posted on social media about the blessing of the procession. “What a lovely witness to the faith, still burning brightly in ...