Six weeks from this Sunday, on Nov. 27, the First Sunday of Advent, the Catholic Church in the United ... the “Missale Romanum,” the Roman Missal. This is a time for great rejoicing and ...

Over time, the Christian church and faith grew more organized ... it had become the official religion of the Roman Empire.

Meanwhile, Pope Francis is the 266th pope to serve the Roman Catholic Church, and he assumed the papacy in 2013. He followed Pope Benedict XVI, who spearheaded the church from 2005 until he ...

Last December, ninety-three years later, the Times published an excerpt from ... as “an investigative history of the modern Roman Catholic Church.” The topics are familiar—disputes over ...