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Dec 20, 20232 min read

Declaration - Fiducia Supplicans - On the Pastoral Meaning of Blessings

Víctor Manuel Card. FERNÁNDEZ This Declaration considers several questions that have come to this Dicastery in recent years. In preparing...

Jun 14, 20223 min read

What happens when a Catholic priest fathers a child? A Vatican cardinal answers

Guidelines were to make it easier for those men to leave the priesthood to care for their children and be real dads - Cardinal Stella

Jan 12, 20221 min read

The Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts

Featured here is the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts with an interview with its President, Archbishop Filippo Iannone.

Jun 16, 20211 min read

Priests Gather to Pray the Rosary Live on Special Day

NBVM-SCIC parish hosted around 50 priests from all over the country to a virtual Rosary on the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Jun 2, 20214 min read

STRONGER PENAL LAW AFTER CHURCH ABUSE SCANDAL

A Press Conference in the Holy See Press Office highlights the changes made to Book VI of the Code of Canon Law. Changes made to Book VI...

Jun 2, 20213 min read

POPE REFORMS PENAL SANCTIONS IN THE CHURCH: Mercy requires correction

With the Apostolic Constitution “Pascite Gregem Dei,” Pope Francis reforms Book VI of the Code of Canon Law, continuing a revision begun...

Jun 2, 20212 min read

BISHOP ARRIETA: How Book VI of Canon Law has changed

The Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts presents the Apostolic Constitution "Pascite gregem Dei". He explains that...

Jun 1, 20211 min read

POPE FRANCIS RE-NAMES CARDINAL BURKE TO VATICAN'S HIGHEST COURT

Saturday the Vatican announced Pope Francis’ appointment of Cardinal Raymond Burke as a member of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic...

May 28, 20211 min read

POPE APPOINTS LEADERSHIP AT CONGREGATION FOR DIVINE WORSHIP

Pope Francis appoints Archbishop Arthur Roche as the new Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, and Archbishop Vittorio...

Apr 29, 20215 min read

CARDINAL LADARIA: Pastoral Care, Church Law are not in conflict in Marriage Cases

The prefect of the Vatican’s doctrinal office stressed on Tuesday that in marriage annulment or dissolution cases, the Church’s...

Jan 14, 20213 min read

POPE FRANCIS: Ministries of Lector and Acolyte to be open to women

Pope Francis changes the Code of Canon Law to institutionalize what is already allowed in practice: the access of lay women to the...