Year: 2026

The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life released a 79-page document, “Integral Ecology in the Life of the Family.” The document—dated October …

The vicar apostolic of Savannakhet, Laos, ordained two Redemptorists to the priesthood on April 22 in Thakhek, a city of 90,000. Twenty priests minister to 53,000 Catholics in Laos. The …

At the blessing of the foundation stone of the Pope Francis Heart Center at Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, Pope Leo XIV recalled Dilexit Nos, Pope Francis’s 2024 encyclical on …

During an April 27 meeting with the prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, Pope Leo XIV approved decrees that advanced five beatification causes.

In his first visit to the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, which trains Vatican diplomats, Pope Leo XIV outlined “some characteristics of the Pontifical Diplomatic Priest who, by participating in the ministry …

What was the fear that drove the disciples into the Upper Room on the day Jesus rose from the dead? Was it the Jews, eager to wipe them out just …

In an interview on the occasion of his 75th birthday, Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru, secretary of the Dicastery (formerly Pontifical Council) for Legislative Texts since 2007, was …

Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg, the former chairman of the German bishops’ conference, and Irme Stetter-Karp, president of the lay Central Committee of German Catholics, defended the blessing of same-sex …

Following an investigation, Bishop Joseph Bonnemain of Chur, Switzerland, ruled that three dog owners who shared the Blessed Sacrament with their pets did not incur an automatic excommunication because they …