Pope Francis may soon offer the Society of Saint Pius X regular canonical status within the Church, without requiring the acceptance of certain texts of the Second Vatican Council with which they disagree.
Based on the pontiff's repeated public statements, including his recent apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, it's reasonable to assume Francis would have termed those positions "un-Christian" as well, and then we'd be talking about the pope injecting …
The Vatican's Holy See has suspended its contract with PricewaterhouseCoopers but stressed that the suspension is not due to problems with PwC's work. The Vatican has been struggling to straighten out its finances and appointed the former chairman and …
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In a letter to Cardinal Marc Ouellet in his role as the head of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, released by the Vatican Tuesday, Francis says he wants to speak to the members of the commission about how to better serve what he terms "the …
(Vatican Radio) “The Progress of Regenerative Medicine and its Cultural Impact:” that's the theme of an international conference coming up later this week in the Vatican. The third in a series of Vatican conferences on stem cell research and …
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Vatican has named a new archbishop for the Mexican city of Hermosillo, in the northwestern state of Sonora. Matamoros Bishop Ruy Rendon Leal replaces Jose Ulises Macias Salcedo in the position. The Mexican Bishops' …
VATICAN CITY: Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the new nuncio to the United States, said he is ready to learn about the Catholic Church in the country and will try his best to be Pope Francis's emissary, particularly in promoting a Church that is close to …
An Indian delegation of Bishops met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 25 in New Delhi and asked to personally lead a group to the September canonization ceremony of Mother Teresa at the Vatican. The delegation included Cardinal Baselios Cleemis, …