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Faith

Irme Stetter-Karp, president of the Central Committee of German Catholics and co-chair of the Synodal Path, and Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German bishops' conference, attend the fifth synodal assembly in Frankfurt March 9, 2023.

Pope Francis sees threat of church in Germany moving away from Rome

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Pope Francis expressed his concern about concrete initiatives individual dioceses and the Catholic Church in Germany as a whole are taking, including the establishment of a synodal council, which, he said, threaten to steer it away from the universal church.

Cardinal Gianfranco Ghirlanda speaks to reporters at the Vatican Feb. 20, 2023, about the release of a two-volume book on the theology of the priesthood and the need to promote a better understanding of priesthood in a "synodal" church.

Cardinal denies work on changing conclave

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Cardinal Gianfranco Ghirlanda, a top advisor to Pope Francis on matters involving canon law, denied reports the Pope had asked him to draft revisions to the rules governing the preparations for electing a new pope.

Pope Francis meets Sultan al-Jaber, the president-designate of the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP28, his delegation and Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, at the Vatican Oct. 11, 2023. COP28 is set to open Nov. 30 in Dubai.

Vatican confirms papal trip to Dubai for climate conference

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Pope Francis will travel to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates Dec. 1-3 to participate in the U.N. Climate Change Conference, the Vatican press office confirmed.

Members of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops use tablets to vote on the gathering's synthesis document Oct. 28, 2023, in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican.

Synod synthesis shows agreement, divergences, including on 'synodality'

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A report summarizing discussions at the assembly of the Synod of Bishops said the church may need more welcoming pastoral approaches, especially to people who feel excluded, but also acknowledged fears of betraying traditional church teachings and practices.

Pope Francis greets Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik during a private audience at the Vatican in this Jan. 3, 2022, file photo.

Pope Francis calls on doctrinal dicastery to formally investigate Father Rupnik

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Pope Francis has lifted the statute of limitations on abuse accusations against Father Marko Rupnik to allow for a formal investigation of the case by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.

A bishop watches a video screen as his tablet with synod documents is open during the first session of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Oct. 4, 2023.

Confidential synod documents made available on unsecured server

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Some confidential documents from the assembly of the Synod of Bishops were accessible online to anyone who had the address before synod officials restored the need for a username and password, said Paolo Ruffini, prefect of the Dicastery for Communication.

Panelists open the conference “New Documents from the Pontificate of Pope Pius XII” at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Oct. 9, 2023. From the left are Rome Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni; Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state; Auxiliary Bishop Étienne Vetö of Reims, France, and Suzanne Brown-Fleming from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Study, not blame or shame, needed with pope's wartime record, scholar says

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The era of divisive debate about Pope Pius XII has been left behind, and now Catholics and Jews, historians and theologians must take up serious and collaborative study, said the co-organizer of a major conference looking at the early results of new research into the wartime pontificate.

Pope Francis speaks to visitors during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sept. 27, 2023.

Pope Francis responds to cardinals on blessings for homosexuals, female priests

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The Catholic Church, in pursuit of "pastoral prudence," should discern if there are ways of giving blessings to homosexual persons that do not alter the church's teaching on marriage, Pope Francis said.

Materials from the pontificate of Pope Pius XII are pictured in the Vatican Apostolic Archives in this Feb. 27, 2020, file photo. The Vatican announced June 23 it will put online documentation detailing Jewish people's petitions for help to Pope Pius XII during World War II.

Vatican archivist discovers letter from Jesuit active in Nazi resistance

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A Vatican archivist discovered a letter to Pope Pius XII's personal secretary from a Jesuit priest in Germany, who was active in the resistance against the Nazis, reporting that thousands of Poles and Jews were being incinerated daily in a Polish concentration camp.

Pope Francis meets with Ivan Soltanovsky, the new Russian ambassador to the Holy See, at the Vatican Sept. 18, 2023.

New Russian ambassador begins service at Vatican

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Pope Francis accepted the letters of credential of Russia's new ambassador to the Holy See, Ivan D. Soltanovsky, who officially began his mission four months after his predecessor left Rome.

Pope Francis answers a question from a journalist aboard his flight back to Rome from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Sept. 4, 2023, after a four-day visit to the Asian country.

Synod assembly won't be secret, but won't be open to press, Pope Francis says

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The Synod of Bishops is not a television show or a parliamentary debate, and its discussions will not be open to the public or to reporters, Pope Francis said.

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