Cardinal Farrell invited the bishops and the 22 lay participants at the meeting to “speak truthfully” and listen to stories of the “complexity of family life.”
Vatican Dispatch
Posted inVatican Dispatch
Pope will enter hospital Tuesday for surgery to remove lung nodule
Following the news of the pope’s imminent hospitalization, messages of good wishes and prayers for his health have arrived from church leaders in all parts of the world.
Posted inVatican Dispatch
Pope to undergo surgery to remove ‘small, localized lump’ in lung
According to the Holy See Press Office, the pope’s surgery to remove a lung nodule is scheduled for this week, and the hospital stay is expected to be about one week.
Posted inVatican Dispatch
‘Amoris’ participants agree that one major issue is affecting families: Migration.
On the first day of the Vatican’s closed-door meeting on “Amoris Laetitia,” “human mobility and migration were mentioned by all the groups.”
Posted inVatican Dispatch
Pope Leo confirms Cardinal Tagle as Dean of the College of Cardinals
This important office plays a prominent role in papal transitions and conclaves.
Posted inVatican Dispatch
‘Amoris Laetitia’ and its tough questions are here to stay
Some critics of Pope Francis had remained hopeful that a Leo papacy would bring some reversals of his teachings. Instead, in almost every case, Leo has doubled down, as he is doing this week.
Posted inVatican Dispatch
Indian Cardinal Filipe Neri: ‘there is no ‘single stereotype of an ideal family’
Cardinal Neri said that 10 years after “Amoris Laetitia,” the church in Asia sees that “there is no single stereotype of an ideal family but rather a challenging mosaic of diverse realities.”
Posted inVatican Dispatch
‘We have much to learn from families’: Pope Leo welcomes bishops to ‘Amoris Laetitia’ meeting
Pope Leo asked the bishops gathered at the Vatican for a meeting on the family to “recognize the work of grace even in situations marked by limits, wounds and apparent failure.”
Posted inVatican Dispatch
Pope Francis’ private diaries to be published by the Vatican
To the astonishment of the Vatican and the world, Pope Francis has delivered yet another surprise: He kept a private diary from Dec. 20, 1992, to Aug. 18, 2024, just nine months before his death.
Posted inVatican Dispatch
Pope Leo marks the 800th anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi’s death with calls for prayer and peace
“St. Francis repaired the church by virtue of his faith in the Lord Jesus, healing the rifts of discord through the witness of fraternal love.”