The self-proclaimed Gallican bishop arrested in a crackdown on a child abuse network jumped from a window May 23. He led one ...

When he was elected pope, Pius was tasked with implementing the reforms and decrees of the Council of Trent. The council ended in 1563 and he became pope in 1566. His main desire was to bring ...

Stoke-on-Trent City Council launched an investigation and hauled Muhammed Aaban Aamir Ali before North Staffordshire Justice Centre. The 44-year-old admitted failing to comply with EU provision ...

This was the liturgy used in Rome. There were other liturgies used in the West up to the Council of Trent (1526-1570). After the Council of Trent only the Roman liturgy could be used. The only ...

Now TKT Express on High Street is under 'formal investigation'. Stoke-on-Trent City Council say the crackdown, involving Trading Standards staff and police, came after the sale of an 'illegal vape ...

[Cf. Council of Florence (1439): DS 1304; Council of Trent (1563): DS 1820; (1547): 1580; see also Benedict XII, Benedictus Deus (1336): DS 1000.] The Church formulated her doctrine of faith on ...

The question facing the conclave is whether the cardinals want to continue in the direction set by Pope Francis.

The great reformer and warrior pope who enforced the reforms of the Council of Trent and rallied Christian Europe to victory at the Battle of Lepanto against the Ottoman fleet. Best known for ...

I say "almost" because Trent permitted diverse rites, such as the Ambrosian liturgy in Milan ... of the greatest reforms of the Second Vatican Council was the move away from an ecclesiology ...

Strategically placed coverups were painted onto many of the nudes in later years. The Council of Trent even ordered that the painting be covered or destroyed. Thankfully, that didn’t happen.

The practice of wearing the pectoral cross also spread to bishops during the Council of Trent and was formalized in the rubrics of the missal of Pius V in 1570. The Pope's pectoral cross is ...