In terms of assigning blame for the climate crisis, the pontiff is critical of wealthy nations, especially the United States, for disproportionately causing the emissions that scientists believe...
In his opening Mass for this month’s highly-anticipated Synod of Bishops on Synodality, Pope Francis said modern global challenges require the Church to be warm and welcoming, free of the ideology...
Pope Francis in response to a series of dubia, or doubts, posed over the summer maintained the church’s ban on women’s priestly ordination, but signaled openness on giving blessings to couples in...
Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, former Vatican envoy in Ukraine and head of the Dicastery for Eastern Churches, has called the war in Ukraine “barbaric,” and has defended Pope Francis’s attempt at a...
This week, the three-judge panel overseeing the case heard from lawyers representing the civil parties, each of whom advanced requests for compensation related to losses allegedly sustained as a...
From Vietnam to clerical abuse, to artificial intelligence and the Synod of Bishops, the past few days have brought several newsworthy developments in what is likely the busiest week on the...
Cardinal-designate Stephen Chow of Hong Kong, who will receive his red hat from Pope Francis Saturday, has voiced his belief that the Vatican’s approach to dialogue with China is working, and that...
Attorney Roberto Lipari, representing the Institute for the Works of Religion, better known as the “Vatican bank,” asked that the defendants be compelled to pay the bank roughly $1 million for “moral...