In his opening Mass for this month’s highly-anticipated Synod of Bishops on Synodality, Pope Francis said modern global challenges require the church to be warm and welcoming, free of the ideology...

Pope Francis in response to a series of dubia, or doubts, posed over the summer maintained the church’s ban on women’s priestly ordination, but signaled openness on giving blessings to couples in...

Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, former Vatican envoy in Ukraine and head of the Dicastery for Eastern Churches, has called the war in Ukraine “barbaric,” and has defended Pope Francis’s attempt at a...