The Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) is a traditionalist group that is not in full communion with the Catholic Church and has a ...

The Roman Catholic Church played an important part in East Timor’s independence struggle. But one of its heroes from that ...

An estimated 600,000 people packed a seaside park in East Timor for Pope Francis' Mass — a figure nearing half of the small ...

When Pope Francis touches down in the East Timorese capital of Dili this week he will be landing in a totally different ...

A progressive nun, she used a welcome address before Pope John Paul II in 1979 to call for equality in the ranks of the Roman Catholic Church. By Clay Risen Sister Theresa Kane, a Roman Catholic ...

Popes are popular. So much so that nearly half the population of East Timor gathered Tuesday in a seaside park for Pope ...

The last papal visit to Dili was in 1989, when Pope John Paul II arrived in territory ... So entwined is the Catholic church in Timor-Leste’s battle for freedom, that independence hero and ...

Pope Francis will touch down in Papua New Guinea later on Friday as the pontiff undertakes his longest ever overseas journey ...

East Timor and Singapore – underscoring a significant shift inside the Catholic Church as it pivots to Asia. He is the second pope to visit East Timor, after Pope John Paul II in 1989 ...

East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste, has been overwhelmingly Catholic ... the first pope to visit them since their independence in 2002, on the same field where St. John Paul II prayed in ...

Pope Paul VI visited Indonesia in 1970, and Pope John Paul II visited in 1989 ... Pope Francis’ trip is seen as a reaffirmation of the Catholic Church’s commitment to interfaith dialogue ...

The Catholic Church “lost its privileged position ... the church played an increasingly important role. In 1983, Pope John Paul II appointed Carlos Ximenes Belo, a young Salesian priest, as ...