A delegation of German bishops is expected in Rome this Friday for talks with the Vatican about the German Synodal Way. While the precise agenda is not a matter of public record, the encounter will ...

Given the Vatican’s repeated interventions against the German process, the bishops said they would instead look to the Synod of Bishops in Rome. Meanwhile, on Monday, German diocesan bishops approved ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a letter to German Catholics, Pope Francis said its proposals risk moving away from the Catholic Church. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a letter published on Tuesday (Nov. 21), Pope ...

The Synod of Bishops on synodality just completed the first of two major assemblies. The synodal process has the potential to impact the entire church, including women religious. For the final ...

Recently, I was subjected to a disappointing message from the pulpit that felt like a step back in time to the 2016 election season. The presiding priest and his accompanying deacon preached about why ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pope Leo XIV attends a mass prayer in Beirut at the end of his visit to Lebanon. Marwan Naamani/dpa Pope Leo XIV has clearly ...

We can argue that this way of proceeding is not only enshrined in the Vatican II Documents like Lumen Gentium or Gaudium et Spes, but that this ecclesiological praxis of inclusivity and diversity is ...

From Saturday, October 12th through Saturday, October 19th more than 150 students, campus ministers and educators from 15 Catholic colleges and universities from across the U.S. will make a pilgrimage ...

You can find today’s readings here. When you have done all you have been commanded, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants; we have done what we were obliged to do.’” (Lk 17:7-10) When I first read the ...

Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, Nov. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a letter published on Tuesday (Nov. 21 ...

Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Abuja, Nigeria, speaks during a forum addressing international religious freedom issues at the United Nations in New York March 1, 2019. (Credit: Gregory A. Shemitz/CNS.

Seven graduate students from the Boston College Clough School of Theology and Ministry traveled to Rome in October as part of a network of 14 Catholic colleges and universities from across the United ...