A good illustration of how papal infallibility actually works is in the comparatively recent definition of the assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. There’s a scene in Brideshead Revisited in which ...

Download the MP3 audio version of this story here, or sign up for The Explainer’s free daily podcast on iTunes. Pope Benedict XVI announced on Sunday that he is “deeply sorry” for quoting a passage ...

This is a reaction to Bernardo M. Villegas article titled “Infallible teaching on artificial contraceptives” (Inquirer, 10/20/12). Having been a priest for over 50 years, I find it interesting to read ...

Next week, Hans Küng, the Catholic priest and Swiss theologian, will mark his 88th birthday. The fifth volume of his complete works, titled Infallibility, has just become available from the German ...

At the meeting of the U.S. bishops this week, one face, always lively and spry, with the elfin look of a man who has just thought of a bon mot, was noticeably missing. On June 22, San Francisco ...