Pope Francis
Pope Francis needs to stop treating Vatican officials like princes
By Thomas Reese — April 23, 2024
(RNS) — The only way to kill the papal court is to stop making Vatican officials bishops and cardinals.
Women Are Shaking Up the Vatican + Claire Giangravé
By Roxanne Stone — April 18, 2024
RNS's Vatican reporter gives us the inside scoop on the contentious conversations around women's ordination in the Catholic Church.
The perils and necessities of saying ‘I don’t know’
By Thomas Reese — April 15, 2024
(RNS) — In political, academic and ecclesial life, expressing uncertainty is the equivalent of committing professional suicide.
Pope Francis sides with Peruvian villagers who accused Catholic group of trying to steal their land
By Gabriela Molina — April 15, 2024
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — On Saturday, Francis urged the Catacaos villagers to persist in their efforts to defend the land, where they raise cattle and produce honey.
Vatican complains after French court rules in favor of nun dismissed from religious order
By Nicole Winfield — April 15, 2024
ROME (AP) — The case is highly unusual, because it represented a secular civilian court essentially determining that the Vatican’s in-house canonical procedures grossly violated the nun’s fundamental rights.
Vatican document on gender theory, surrogacy puzzles critics and advocates
By Claire Giangravé — April 15, 2024
(RNS) — Experts question whether the pope will leave hot-button issues for his successor to decide or if he is paving the way for doctrinal reform.
US Catholics more polarized than ever about still-popular Pope Francis, survey says
By Aleja Hertzler-McCain — April 12, 2024
(RNS) — The Republican and Republican-leaning favorability rating represents a decline, creating the largest partisan gap in approval of Francis since his papacy began.
Experts call for Vatican judicial reforms to promote transparency and a fair trial
By Claire Giangravé — April 11, 2024
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Speakers at the conference said the institution still has a lot to do to better inform victims during canonical trials.
Brazil’s Yanomami leader asks the Pope to support President Lula in reversing damage to the Amazon
By Nicole Winfield — April 11, 2024
VATICAN CITY (AP) — History’s first Latin American pope has made caring for the environment, especially the Amazon, a hallmark of his papacy.
New York Catholic Workers bring new growth with rooftop garden
By Fiona Murphy — April 9, 2024
(RNS) — Inspired by Pope Francis’ apostolic letter on ecology, a garden planned for the roof of the movement’s historic Maryhouse has attracted new attention to Dorothy Day’s Catholic service organization.
New Vatican document combines modern transparency with eternal teaching
By Thomas Reese — April 9, 2024
(RNS) — Pope Francis summons all people to defend human dignity in every moment of human existence.
New Vatican document condemns gender theory, surrogacy
By Claire Giangravé — April 8, 2024
(RNS) — The new document takes a step back from the opening toward LGBTQ Catholics ushered in by Pope Francis.
An Argentine judge recognizes gender abuse suffered for years by 20 nuns in a breakthrough ruling
By Almudena Calatrava — April 8, 2024
BUNEOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) —The ruling in the homeland of Pope Francis cast a spotlight on the long-standing of abuse of nuns by priests and bishops in the Catholic Church.
Photographer Stephen Wilkes’ Easter Sunday at St. Peter’s
By Jim McDermott — April 5, 2024
(RNS) — An exhibition of the photographer's Day and Night view of the Vatican on Easter, one in a series of Wilkes' epic shots of religion festivals, vaults the day into an almost cosmological framework.
Pope shows off rosary of slain Ukrainian soldier, denounces ‘madness of war’
By Associated Press — April 4, 2024
ROME (AP) — Praying for the families of the seven World Central Kitchen workers killed, he called for humanitarian aid to reach Gaza's people and for all efforts to prevent the conflict from spreading.
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