Based on the true story of a 6-year-old Jewish boy taken from his home by the Catholic Church, Marco Bellocchio’s film is a ...

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Edgardo Mortara was just 6 years old when Italian authorities took him away from his family in 1858. Kidnapped is a true ...

Directed by the esteemed Italian provocateur Marco Bellocchio, the drama takes its heated inspiration from a notorious ...

However, Francis is of a mind with Pope Pius IX, who promulgated the dogma of papal infallibility. “I am the Tradition!” Pius once declared; “I am the Church!” Rex Mottram would approve of the ...

Pope Pius IX formally instituted the celebration of the Immaculate Conception when he proclaimed this dogma on December 8, 1854. Affirming the constant faith of the Church, he expressed in that ...

It is generally held by scholars that Pope Pius XII made very significant and notable contributions to Marian theology, public piety and devotion to Our Lady. He was born Eugenio Pacelli in Rome in ...

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For most of Church history, the popes were important but distant figures, even to average Catholics across the globe. That began to change, of course, with the emergence of modern media.

The Immaculate Conception, a solemnity celebrated on December 8, is the patronal feast of the United States. In 1854, Pope Pius IX's solemn declaration, Ineffabilis Deus (link al documento que ...

We’re living through days of powerful, often violent religious feeling — stories that might have felt like old dead history now take on a stinging new relevance. That’s the case with ...