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 ...

Please refute. Pope Pius XI taught that married couples could use their marriage rights in the infertile periods of the wife (or when there is a defect of nature or age which prevents new life ...

Built on land donated by Pope Pius XI to the theologian and physician Agostino Gemelli in 1934, it has become known as the "Pope's Hospital." John Paul II even nicknamed it "Vatican Three," with ...

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 ...

By the end of 1922, the figure of Pope Pius XI did not simply represent the highest level of the Roman Catholic Church, he was also the ultimate court of spiritual appeal to both sides.