Pope Francis said he knows it is not easy to be creative as the lockdown drags on, "but don't run away, don't take refuge in escapism, which in this time is of no use to you."

This is the second commission established by Pope Francis to study the question of a women’s diaconate.

On this episode of “Inside the Vatican,” Colleen Dulle and Gerard O'Connell discuss whether the Vatican's canonical investigation into Cardinal George Pell should continue.

Amid the global pandemic of Covid-19 that has spread throughout this Lenten season, calling on the Mother of Sorrows feels all the more urgent.

Although we find ourselves separated from the sacraments, it is possible to make an Ignatian retreat from home as we enter Holy Week.

In other circumstances, however, the current crisis is the result of abandonment "from afar" when it comes to not providing enough assistance and therapeutic care for the elderly, the dicastery added.