The Second Vatican Council unleashed a passion for change in the Roman Catholic Church ... warned against excesses of reform, they have, in effect, tolerated the radical questioning of doctrine ...

However, the branch of the Radical Reformation that was to leave ... Reformers could not accept—much less the Roman Catholic established church. They expressed this belief by baptizing people ...

Pope Francis has elected 21 new cardinals to help reform the Catholic Church, leaning heavily on ... he said he wanted Fernandez to oversee a radical break from the past, adding the former Holy ...

The Radical Reformers challenged not only Roman Catholic doctrine ... on which the Protestant Reformation itself was based, the Radical Reformers worked to adapt the Church to the New Testament.

But though he may have reinvigorated the Catholic Church, Francis did not resolve ... Austen Ivereigh wrote that for Francis, “radical reform is ultimately about the courage to strip away ...

Pope Francis, a leader known for steering the Catholic Church toward ... appeal of the existing European church; Francis believed that the church had to reform itself to fit the shifting base ...

Conservatives thought he’d tear up Church doctrine. But his papacy favored debate over radical action. By Jason Horowitz In Vatican City When Pope Francis convened Roman Catholic bishops at the ...

I met the man who would become Pope Leo XIV in October 2023. We were standing outside the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and from my short conversation with Cardinal Robert Prevost, I could tell he was a good ...

Pope Francis didn’t affirm same-sex marriage or lobby for ordaining women as priests. But he gently steered the Catholic Church in a more progressive direction while leading with compassion, openness ...