What you need to know about October's synod on the family

Recently in a corner of a small island in the North Atlantic an elderly man died He was 88 years old and had been in failing health for some time In his life he had started out as an ordained minister and along the way unavoidably or more accurately eagerly got involved in politics With h

Sister May Ann Walsh on LCWR controversy

If you happened to pull yourself away from all the Cupich-to-Chicago news this weekend last night someone in my community called his appointment the most important moment in the American Church since quot Humane Vitae quot so I rsquo m going to say he didn rsquo t you might have seen reference

I have been on many papal trips to foreign countries over the past thirty years and have experienced some profoundly moving and faith-filled moments on several of them but I had never before seen a Pope so overcome with emotion that he wept But that is what I witnessed on Sunday evening September

Pope Francis drew enthusiastic and prolonged applause when in his homily at mass in Mother Teresa Square in Tirana the capital of Albania attended by some 300 000 people mdash most of them Catholics but also very many Orthodox and Muslims mdash he greeted them saying ldquo May peace be in your