This December marks the 480th anniversary of an event that has done much to shape modern Catholic identity: the Council of Trent. This ecumenical council, beginning on Dec. 13, 1545, through stops and ...

How long will it take before the Catholic world enthusiastically accepts the teachings of the Council? This year the Church celebrates the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicea. The Orthodox ...

My attempt in these next set of blog posts is to list some of the popes that reigned since Jesus gave Peter the keys of his brand new established church in the first century. And some of the other ...

The Second Vatican Council, which after three years of dialogue and document drafting closed on Dec. 8, 1965, changed the face of the church, and opened it to the modern world. The council, opened ...

Jesus did not reserve teaching authority to himself, but assigned it to the leaders he put in charge of his Church (see Day 281). He thus created a Magisterium (Latin, “teaching authority”) within his ...

In this episode, we explore “How did the Church councils get their names?” along with a variety of other intriguing topics, including recommendations for studying Early Church Fathers and the concept ...

Authorized gatherings of bishops for the purpose of discussing ecclesiastical problems with a view to passing decrees on matters under discussion. In Roman Catholic terminology, if all the bishops are ...