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U.S. bishops’ president Archbishop Timothy Broglio discusses his relationship with Pope Francis, the pope’s comments on the U.S. church and the status of ousted bishop Joseph Strickland.

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops president, answered questions about Pope Francis, the status of Bishop Strickland, and more.

Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández, the new Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, has already worked closely with Pope Francis in the past.

St Gregory of Nyssa stated that it is necessary to go from beginning to beginning, through beginnings that have no end

Pope Francis' reform of the Roman Curia emphasizes work in the Vatican as a service not only to the pope, but also to dioceses and eparchies and bishops and bishops' conferences around the world.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis reform of the Roman Curia emphasizes work in the Vatican as a service not only to the pope, but also to dioceses and eparchies and bishops and bishops conferences around the world. The Roman Curia is not set between the pope and the bishops, but is at the service of both, the pope wrote in Praedicate Evangelium (Preach the Gospel), his apostolic constitution reforming the Curia. The work of the Curia, he said, is organically related to the College of B

The Roman Curia is not set between the pope and the bishops, but is at the service of both, the pope wrote

In a Spanish-language interview with Argentina's national news agency Télam, Pope Francis reflects on a wide range of issues, including "building back ...

Some 278 Catholic bishops, clergy, religious personnel and lay people will meet as members of an unprecedented Plenary Council during 3-9 July to finalise the resolutions of their first assembly last year. However the May working document ‘Framework for Motions’, despite much worthy content, especially on Indigenous affairs, relies on a narrow notion of mission overly focused on inner-church issues at the expense of the wider social engagement that Francis emphasises. By Bruce Duncan

The Church in Latin America faces aggressive forms of secularization that threatens the family and the life of the unborn.