A traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him has ...

Communion can be distributed “under the form of wine alone in a case of necessity,” but many parishes have opted for the ...

An Italian priest has been excommunicated from the Catholic Church for saying Pope Francis is not the real pope. Father Natale Santonocito (61), parish priest of the San Cesareo church south-east of ...

A priest was excommunicated from a parish in Livorno in January last year for calling Pope Francis a “usurper” in a New Year’s Eve homily, which marked the first anniversary of the death of the pope’s ...

Vatican II was the series of 1960s church meetings that modernized the Catholic Church by allowing Mass in the vernacular ... First as cardinal and then as pope, Benedict worked to heal the ...