What caused all the flurry was that the Pope had granted Goethe a special dispensation to continue living under the same roof with his wife. Pastor Goethe’s interest in Catholicism began in 1940 ...

US President Joe Biden has cancelled last visit of his presidency to Italy, which was scheduled to begin on Thursday. The ...

That’s what he should be doing, not trying to create a talking point and ask for special dispensation from the Pope. I don’t know what Joe Biden’s motivations are, but I do know that the ...

The fifth commandment of the Church includes the support also of our holy father, the Pope, bishops ... persons thus related to marry without a dispensation or special permission of the Church.

Pope Benedict XVI has written eloquently about ... I am told that the wives of the handful of Catholic clergy who have the dispensation from celibacy are the first to support the Church's general ...

Don’t blame previous dispensations for present-day woes. Shakespeare says cogently: Present mirth hath present laughter. Rightly so. But the scalpel wit of Alexander Pope warns that ...

papal dispensations were given for such unions to take place. The marriage would have been possible but whether either party desired it is debatable. At worst, it is another piece of the Tudor ...

Pope Pius XII in 1949. In a related item ... Even if those of us who have to remain behind were enabled by some last-minute dispensation to make the trip there would be no means — short of chartering ...

So allergic is Tamil Nadu’s ruling dispensation to the chariot procession and its unflinching ... Possibly, it would be more appropriate if these portraits were replaced by those of De Nobili, Pope ...

Pope Francis recently said that "fake news" was the root cause of the assassination attempts against President-elect Donald Trump last year. The Catholic News Agency reported on the pontiff’s ...

President Joe Biden awarded Pope Francis with the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, the highest U.S. civilian honor, the White House announced on Saturday. Biden, the nation's second ...