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On July 7, Bishop Elpidophore, Primate of the Greek Archdiocese of the United States, under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, baptized the children of a gay couple formed by Norwegian fashion designer Peter Dundas and his Greek partner Evangelis Bousis at the Church of St. Theotokos Phaneromeni in the Athens seaside neighborhood of Vouliagmeni.

The Vatican is concerned with ideas coming from Germany to reform the Catholic Church. On July 21, a statement was published through official ...

The German bishops’ Synodal Path was “doomed from the start,” according to the former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

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

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- It seems necessary to make it clear that the Synodal Path in Germany does not have the power to compel bishops and the faithful to assume new modes of governance and new approaches to doctrine and morals, said an unsigned declaration of the Holy See. Released by the Vatican press office in German and Italian July 21, the declaration said the Catholic Church in Germany could not initiate new official structures or doctrines in the dioceses prior to an agreed understa

Last week, I expressed concern that Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, had said in an interview that the pope did not understan...

A Vatican statement clarifies that the initiative underway in Germany "does not have the power to oblige bishops and the faithful" to "new ways of ...