The recent Synod in Rome, the “Special Assembly for the Amazon of the Synod of Bishops,” focused on the topic “Amazonia: New Paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology” with controversial and ...

October 29, 2011 (JUBA) — The Catholic Church decided to maintain its old structure covering its activities in the two Sudans after the independence of South Sudan in July 2011. The decision was ...

Throughout the Catholic Church, something is stirring about the way we are governed. For many of us in the Church and across society, we don’t much care about that subject. We long ago made peace with ...

VATICAN CITY— Will the Synod on Synodality result in changes to established Church teaching? But some participants may be using the synodal process to try to change something arguably even more ...

In a Vatican press conference today, Cardinal William Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, announced that an Apostolic Constitution has been prepared in response to “many ...

The governing system of the Catholic Church is broken. It is rooted in the medieval feudal system, with the “all-knowing” king and ignorant peasants. Such a system uses secrecy, no accountability for ...

During today's general audience Benedict XVI continued with his series of catecheses on the origins of the Church, focusing on the Apostolic Fathers. The audience was held in the Paul VI Hall in the ...