Nine years after taking office, Pope Francis promulgated his constitution reforming the Roman Curia, a project he began with his international College of Cardinals shortly after taking office in 2013. "Praedicate Evangelium" ("Preach the Gospel"), which ...
November 22 marks the fourtieth anniversary of Pope Saint John Paul II’s seminal apostolic exhortation Familiaris Consortio, which expounded on the role of the family in the Church and world. To mark this special anniversary, ...
Calling for formal recognition of "those lay men and women who feel called by virtue of their baptism to cooperate in the work of catechesis," Pope Francis has instituted the "ministry of catechist." "The Spirit is ...
This morning, the Vatican released Pope Francis’ apostolic letter Antiquum Ministerium, which formalizes the lay ministry of a catechist. In a new commentary for Our Sunday Visitor, Jem Sullivan, who teaches catechesis at The Catholic ...
While millions of laypeople around the world are recognized as catechists in their parish or diocese, Pope Francis is preparing to formally institute the "ministry of catechist." The Vatican press office said May 5 that Pope ...
Bishops who want to establish a religious order in their dioceses must first obtain the written permission of the Holy See, Pope Francis said. Amending canon law, the pope said it no longer is enough for ...
Following the release of Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis’ new encyclical on fraternity and social friendship, the staff at Our Sunday Visitor has compiled a selection of quotations from the document to help give readers a ...
Pope Francis' social encyclical sees the need for human fraternity as more than just an abstract concept, but as a concrete path toward peaceful coexistence in a world fraught by war, said Cardinal Pietro Parolin. At ...
On Satuday, Pope Francis signed his new encyclical in Assisi, Italy. If Laudato Si', Pope Francis' second encyclical, released in 2015, was a papal plea to care for our common home, then Fratelli Tutti (unofficially ...
Bringing the Vatican official in charge of translations with him, Pope Francis signed his new encyclical, "Fratelli Tutti, on Fraternity and Social Friendship," at the tomb of St. Francis of Assisi, source of the document's ...
Mexico’s Supreme Court upholds norms on abortion for rape, incest http://ow.ly/ch1m50Jiw0L
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Mary, Star of the Sea, protects mariners and is guide for all, Texas Bishop Brendan J. Cahill, says http://ow.ly/LnMy50JivWu
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