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Dispatches
October 05, 2015
The Hungarian cardinal, Peter Erdo, is playing a crucial role in the synod on the family, and now a somewhat controversial one.
Pope Francis arrives for a prayer vigil for the Synod of Bishops on the family in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Oct. 3. (CNS/Paul Haring)
Synod on the Family
October 05, 2015
Francis says synod is not a 'talk shop' or conference but 'a protected space where the church experiences that action of the Holy Spirit.'
Pope Francis and members of the Synod of Bishops on the family concelebrate the opening Mass of the synod in St. Peter's Basilica, Oct. 4 (CNS/Paul Haring).
Synod on the Family
October 04, 2015
Pope Francis analyzed the real and often dramatic situation of people in today’s globalized world, marked by “a growing loneliness and vulnerability,” the image of which is “the family.”
Pope Francis waves as he arrives to lead his weekly audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sept. 30 (CNS photo/Max Rossi, Reuters).
Synod on the Family
October 03, 2015
Pope Francis will open the synod tomorrow morning, Oct. 4, with a concelebrated mass in St Peter’s Basilica attended by 270 synod fathers from all continents.
Synod on the Family
October 03, 2015
The Vatican has denounced as ldquo very serious and irresponsible rdquo the decision by Monsignor Krzysztof Charamsa an official of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith CDF to announce publicly on the eve of the synod of bishops on the family that he is homosexual and has a partner
Synod on the Family
September 22, 2015
Some 250 bishops from all over the world will gather in synod in the Vatican from Oct. 4 to 25 for what many consider to be the most important assembly of this kind since the Second Vatican Council. They gather exactly 50 years after that council to focus on the family and, in the words of Pope Fran
THE POPE’S CUBAN “DREAMERS.” Young people cheer as Pope Francis arrives at the cathedral in Havana, Sept. 20.
Signs Of the Times
September 22, 2015
Minutes after arriving in Cuba on Sept. 19, Pope Francis hailed “the process of normalizing relations between the two peoples of Cuba and the United States” after more than 50 years of estrangement as “a sign of the victory of the culture of encounter and dialogue” that
Vatican Dispatch
September 16, 2015
The crackdown against Christianity has taken various forms.
Vatican Dispatch
September 08, 2015
This week-long journey takes him first to Cuba and then to the United States and is widely considered “the big one” of the year.
Dispatches
September 08, 2015
Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio was appointed by the pope to a commission to study the annulment process.