VATICAN CITY--The Vatican and China extended a controversial accord on bishop nominations Thursday over strong opposition from the White House and conservative Catholics given Beijing’s ...
The Vatican announced the creation of 10 study groups to focus on themes that arose at last October’s Synod on Synodality, an ...
ROME — Pope Francis on Thursday defrocked a notorious Belgian bishop who admitted 14 years ago that he sexually abused his nephew but faced no Vatican punishment. The case of Roger Vangheluwe ...
It is a positional war that has been dragging on for four years. For the moment, the conflict has solidified, waiting to see how the next Synod scheduled for autumn will unfold. On one side is the ...
Representatives of the Roman Curia and the German Bishops’ Conference pose for a photo after meeting at the Vatican on March 23, 2024. (Credit: German Bishops’ Conference/Matthias Kopp.
Pope Francis praised priests as "heroic" witnesses but called on them to move closer to Christ through adversity such as ...
A Belgian former bishop who admitted sexually abusing two of his nephews has been removed from the priesthood by Pope Frances, more than a decade after the case first came to light. The Vatican ...
After the 2024 presidential election in Taiwan, Nauru immediately severed ties with Taipei and resumed diplomatic relations with Beijing. Lionel Aingimea, Nauru’s minister of foreign affairs and ...
The Synodal Way — “Synodaler Weg,” sometimes called Synodal Path — describes itself as a process bringing together Germany’s ...
Vatican officials meet with representatives of the German Bishops’ Conference to discuss several theological questions raised ...
Pope Francis on Thursday defrocked a notorious Belgian bishop who admitted 14 years ago that he sexually abused his nephew but faced no Vatican punishment. The case of Roger Vangheluwe, the ...