Peter Square Sept News Today

Pope Francis' new climate apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum has given four representatives of sister congregations at the United Nations much to think about — and to praise. They shared their thoughts with GSR.

Bishop Kevin Rhoades is one of 14 U.S. bishops participating in the synod's Oct. 4-29 general assembly meeting. Ten other voting nonbishop delegates ap ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- One consequence of Pope Francis choosing new cardinals from the "peripheries" is that friends, family and fans of the newly elevated are just as shocked and surprised as the new cardinals are themselves to have been given the honor. "I never dreamed this would happen," Eugene Kurisinkal of Johor Bahru, Malaysia, said, wiping tears from his eyes, pointing to his uncle, Malaysian Cardinal Sebastian Francis of Penang. "We were at his episcopal ordinati...

One consequence of Pope Francis choosing new cardinals from the "peripheries" is that friends, family and fans of the newly elevated are just...

Pope Francis prays alongside 12 Christian leaders at an ecumenical prayer vigil in St. Peter's Square days before the Synod on Synodality that 'the Holy Spirit will purify the church from gossip, ideologies, and polarization.

‘How can young people, who are poor in hope, closed in on their private lives, worried about managing their own precariousness, open themselves to meeting oth...

“How can we welcome others if we ourselves do not first have a horizon open to the future?” he said.

The Vatican is asking all baptized people, regardless of whether they will be in Rome, to participate in October's assembly of the Synod of Bishops wit ...

The eyes of the Catholic world turn to Rome Oct. 4, as the worldwide Synod of Bishops convenes on the feast of St. Francis of Assisi to focu...

When Pope Francis was introduced to the world from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, he spoke to the crowd about taking up a journey, &...