The church can describe itself as "apostolic" only if it shares the Gospel with the world, remaining faithful to the teaching of the apostles and living out Gospel values, Pope Francis said. "A church ...

One of the lines I love most in the first Eucharistic Prayer is the prayer for the Catholic Church and all bishops who “preach the Catholic faith that comes to us from the Apostles.” In the Creed we ...

Ask those who knew his earliest followers, said Irenaeus. "The Church," wrote Irenaeus, "having received this preaching and this faith, although scattered throughout the whole world, yet, as if ...

Twenty Catholic and evangelical Protestant scholars have issued a joint statement on where both traditions are unified and where they are distinct in their understandings of the four marks of the ...

I write in response to the Thursday, July 11, Forum article: "Vatican decree gets F-M response" and in particular the statement: "Protestant faiths ... have not preserved apostolic succession in ...

The household of God, says Paul, is built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets (Eph. 2:20), and, as E. A. Litton has observed, a foundation does not repeat itself. It is, indeed, evident ...

Many theories, traditions, philosophies and a host of man-made documents and rules govern churches today. This naturally brings great confusion and disagreement. Yet, Jesus said "I have given them the ...

In 2002 seven Roman Catholic women were ordained in Austria on the Danube River by an independent Catholic bishop, Romulo Antonio Braschi. Later unnamed Roman Catholic bishops ordained some of these ...