VATICAN CITY, Oct 22 (Reuters) - After winning praise around the world for his fresh and open style, the honeymoon period seems to be over for Pope Francis. A tumultuous two-week Vatican synod exposed ...

The Church needs reform. She is riven by polarization, weakened by laxity among the faithful, and challenged by the apparent tensions between her teaching and the times. But this need for Catholic ...

ROME — Since the start of his papacy, Francis has infuriated Catholic traditionalists as he tries to nurture a more welcoming church and shift it away from culture war issues, whether abortion or ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Pope Benedict's decision to promote the old Latin mass is a dream come true for delighted Roman Catholic traditionalists and a looming headache for the harried priests now expected ...

Catholic traditionalists who broke with Rome twenty years ago have said they could not rejoin the Church because Pope Benedict XVI still supports the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, Reuters ...

Not that long ago, Catholic “traditionalists” were known for their intense commitment to papal authority. But that was when conservative popes like John Paul II and especially Benedict XVI reigned ...

Francis' decision to disregard church law and wash the feet of two girls -- a Serbian Muslim and an Italian Catholic -- during a Holy Thursday ritual has become something of the final straw, evidence ...

Every Catholic must be, by definition, some version of a “traditionalist.” Our faith is grounded in the absolute truth of God’s Revelation in Christ and that Christ founded his Church upon apostolic ...

Evangelical and Catholic conservatives such as Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, Charles Colson, Richard Cizik, and Rick Santorum have weighed in on international issues such as AIDS in Africa, religious ...

Several years ago, Catholic traditionalists sharply criticized Pope Francis for reversing a decree that his Bavarian predecessor, Benedict XVI, issued in 2007 to permit unrestricted use of the ...