The Vatican’s “Synod Study Group 9” has gone out with a whimper — and an embarrassing one at that. Originally tasked with applying synodality’s emphasis on “listening” to “controversial doctrinal, ...
A Vatican study group formerly expected to address questions surrounding the possibility of women serving as deacons in the Catholic Church will not take up the issue, according to one of several ...
Xavière Missionary Sister Nathalie Becquart, undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops, speaks at an Oct. 21, 2024, press briefing about the Synod of Bishops at the Vatican. Credit: CNS photo/Lola Gomez ...
Synod members, along with Pope Francis, attend the morning session in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Oct. 15, 2024. Credit: CNS photo/Lola Gomez VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The study groups Pope ...
In 1960 — two years before the start of the Second Vatican Council — Pope John XXIII established 10 preparatory commissions to lay the foundation of what would become a landmark event opening up the ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — For more than 50 years, a popular Protestant Bible study has been leading Catholics away from the Church. Three new Catholic Bible-study programs hope to change that. The new ...
Pope Leo XIV has created a study group on artificial intelligence in a sign of his ongoing concern about the technology ...