Pier Giorgio Frassati, the “Saint Francis of Turin,” will be beatified on September 7, 2025. A layman of deep faith, he lived ...

(OSV News) — This is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s homily on June 27, 2025, the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Today, the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Day of Prayer for the ...

The document Lumen Gentium declared that Mary was not above nor beyond the church, but an integral part of the people of God.

Together, they revitalize a Church that does not exist for itself but lives as a sacrament of salvation for the world (Lumen Gentium 1).

His homily was a uniquely designed message to the secular world—and the secular Western world in particular.

During his homily, delivered in Italian, Leo XIV said that Christians must serve a world that is often hostile to their beliefs.

Then, to do so as a Church, experiencing together our fidelity to the Lord and bringing the Good News to all (cf. Lumen Gentium, 1).

He must elevate his homeland’s ideals, calling all to holiness. As Lumen Gentium teaches, quoting 1 Timothy, the church is “the pillar and mainstay of the truth.” ...

Pope Francis revisited Vatican II’s constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, considered the new way of looking at the Church revealed in it, and took it to its logical conclusion.

References have also been made to documents of the Second Vatican Council, particularly the apostolic constitutions Lumen Gentium and Gaudium et Spes, and how to foster more priestly and religious ...

According to Lumen Gentium, the pope has “power of primacy over all.” This means that bishops, priests, monks, and laity all answer to him, and that he has the power to call or disband at will ...

The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) retrieved several ecclesiological themes which had become deemphasized in the course of modern history. One of these themes is the theology of the local church.