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That, in turn, would give Vatican diplomacy a place at the table in discussions about the world’s future with a potential ...

The Diocese of Providence is inviting the community to a farewell Mass for Archbishop Richard Henning, who will be leaving ...

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to settle claims of clergy sexual abuse, marking the largest settlement of its kind with a Catholic archdiocese in the U.S.

In a move which tightens a previous 2004 surrogacy ban, Italy has officially banned its citizens from seeking surrogates ...

These assumptions are planted like seeds and repeated just often enough by a handful of synod delegates, lobby groups, the ...

In a letter to Catholics in the Middle East on the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, Pope Francis ...

The decentralization of certain aspects of the Catholic Church's governance, as proposed in the Synod of Bishops on ...

A historically Catholic country, since the 1950s Belgium has seen a significant decline in the number of its practicing ...

Two peoples and two states: for Pope Francis, this remains the only truly viable solution for peace between Israel and ...

The specific issue of the doctrinal competence of bishops’ conferences, and what that might look like concretely, “got a lot ...

Cardinal Leonardo Steiner, the archbishop of Manaus in Brazil who is participating in the Synod on Synodality, said that ...