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Mar 28, 2024 · In 2007 Benedict XVI (2005–13) restored the traditional practice, declaring that the valid election of a new pope required a two-thirds majority. Papal conclave is the assembly of cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church to elect a new pope and the system of strict seclusion to which they submit. The term comes from the Latin term cum clave ...
Apr 17, 2024 · The First Council of Nicaea (/ n aɪ ˈ s iː ə / ny-SEE-ə; Ancient Greek: Σύνοδος τῆς Νικαίας, romanized: Sýnodos tês Nikaías) was a council of Christian bishops convened in the Bithynian city of Nicaea (now İznik, Turkey) by the Roman Emperor Constantine I. The Council of Nicaea met from May until the end of July 325.
- May to August AD 325
- First Council of Constantinople
Apr 16, 2024 · Bénédicte Cedergren, February 2, 2024 – National Catholic Register. ROME — Celebrated annually on Feb. 2nd, the World Day for Consecrated Life is intended to “help the entire Church to esteem ever more greatly the witness of those persons who have chosen to follow Christ by means of the practice of the evangelical counsels,” as Pope ...
Apr 10, 2024 · Peace of Westphalia, European settlements of 1648, which brought to an end the Eighty Years’ War between Spain and the Dutch and the German phase of the Thirty Years’ War. The peace was negotiated, from 1644, in the Westphalian towns of Münster and Osnabrück. The Spanish-Dutch treaty was signed on January 30, 1648.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
5 days ago · The recent Pew Research survey numbers show that the Catholic population has remained at around 20% since 2014, after dropping off from 24% at around the turn of the century. Catholicism is still ...
1 day ago · The bishops remind us that “the Catholic approach to faithful citizenship rests on moral principles found in sacred Scripture and Catholic moral and social teaching as well as in the hearts of all people of goodwill” (No. 43). These principles are the dignity of the human person, solidarity, subsidiarity, and the common good.
6 days ago · From the first Easter morning through the present, the sign of the cross makes the devil cower and flee. So on one level, making the sign is a defensive move, declaring our inviolability to the devil’s influence. But more importantly, the sign is also an offensive weapon, helping us reclaim with Christ all that Satan lost at the cross.
