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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The German bishops meeting with officials of the Roman Curia was not a showdown, but it did make clear the Vaticans strong concerns about Germanys Synodal Path, especially regarding its support for official ministries for women and for a change in church teaching about homosexuality, said the president of the bishops conference. Coming at the end of the bishops weeklong ad limina visits to Rome, the meeting Nov. 18 with the heads of Vatican offices was a serious

Asked by an Indigenous reporter why he did not use the word while in Canada, Pope Francis says it did not come to mind

ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM CANADA (CNS) -- The planned destruction of the families, languages, cultures and traditions of the Indigenous communities of Canada through the residential school system was genocide, Pope Francis said. Asked by an Indigenous reporter why he did not use the word genocide while in Canada, the pope said, I didnt use the word because it did not come to mind, but what I described was genocide. And I condemned it, he said, during his inflight news conference July

The planned destruction of the families, languages, cultures and traditions of the Indigenous communities of Canada through the residential school system was "genocide," Pope Francis said. In a news conference on the flight from Iqaluit to Rome, he also touched on his health, Germany's Synodal Path, and church teaching.

On his return flight from a July 24-29 Canada visit, Pope Francis denounced the

The presidency of the Synodal Path announced that a fifth synodal assembly would be held at the beginning of March 2023. This is what the synodal presidency announced on Saturday, December 11, 2021.