How does the bishop of a diocese go about verifying a Marian apparition?
As the joke goes: Very carefully. According to the norms established in 1978 by the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the local…
As the joke goes: Very carefully. According to the norms established in 1978 by the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the local…
The Episcopal Church belongs to the Anglican Communion, a world-wide family of Churches. The Catholic Church and the Episcopal Church both follow the Bible and…
A bishop is a priest who receives “the fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders” (CCC, 1557) and is the visible head of a particular…
The idea of the infallibility of the pope was defined at the first Vatican Council in 1869. The Council was trying to describe the teaching…