Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, has apologized for a "misunderstanding" over his absence from an Oct. 18 synod meeting on a Vatican study group about women's roles in the Church.
Pope Francis canonized 14 new saints on Sunday, including a father of eight and Franciscan friars killed in Syria for refusing to renounce their faith and convert to Islam.
After two and a half weeks, the last of two assemblies for the Synod on Synodality is about to enter its final stretch before officially concluding on Oct. 27.
Two prominent Catholics — Cardinal Joseph Zen of Hong Kong and American author George Weigel — have leveled sharp criticisms at the Synod on Synodality, focusing particularly on the Vatican’s approach to China.
More than 30 students — most of whom were from the U.S. — from over 10 universities attended “The University Students in Dialogue with Synod Leaders,” an Oct. 18 event organized by the General Secretariat of the Synod held in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall.
Is there more than meets the eye in the framing of discussions about ecclesiastical governance and the relationship between the local Churches and the universal Church — the main topic of conversation at the Synod on Synodality for the past week?
Over 500 Belgians have requested removal from the baptismal registry ("débaptisation") in response to Pope Francis' controversial statements on abortion and women's role in the Church during his visit to Luxembourg and Belgium.
Cardinal Charles Bo, head of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC) and Archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar, said diocesan synods are key to building a vision and mission for local Churches.
This week, the Vatican Museums unveiled the restored "Apollo Belvedere," an ancient marble statue, after years of work by Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums (PAVM).
The Vatican on Saturday published the schedule for Pope Francis’ consistory to create new cardinals, stating that the liturgy will take place on Dec. 7 — not Dec. 8, as previously announced.