CIA World Factbook: Religion – Catholicism and Vatican City
The CIA World Factbook contains data on Roman Catholic population percentages across the globe, as well as information about Vatican City.
Region: Vatican City
“A Concise History of Liberation Theology”
Read this excerpt from the preface of Introducing Liberation Theology (Orbis Books, 1987) by Leonardo and Clodovis Boff.
“Instruction on Certain Aspects of the Theology of Liberation”
Read the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s 1984 document, “Instruction on Certain Aspects of the Theology of Liberation,” signed by Cardinal Ratzinger.
“Peru’s Catholics Brace for Fissures in Their Church”
Read this article published in The New York Times on May 8, 2005, two weeks after Pope Benedict XVI’s Papal Inauguration Mass.
“A Christian Reflection on the ‘New Age'”
A 2003 Vatican report on “the complex phenomenon of ‘New Age,’” which is influencing many aspects of contemporary culture.
Richard Gaillardetz
Richard R. Gaillardetz is the Joseph Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology at Boston College. He is also the author of By What Authority? A Primer on Scripture, the Magisterium, and the Sense of the Faithful (Liturgical Press, 2003).
“Vatican not impressed with threat to sue over access to archives”
Read a Jan. 28, 2005, Catholic News Service story about a threat by a Jewish group, the Coalition for Jewish Concerns, to sue the Vatican for access to its World War II-era archives.
Stephen M. Colecchi
Stephen M. Colecchi, D. Min., Director, USCCB Office for International Justice and Peace, holds a master of arts in religion from Yale University and a doctor of ministry degree from St. Mary’s Seminary and University. He has written numerous articles on Catholic social teaching, social justice, political responsibility, jubilee and the infusion of Catholic social […]