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Kukama boys watch boats on the Amazon's Maranon River near Dos de Mayo in Peru's Loreto region. (CNS/Barbara Fraser) Several years ago, Rodrigo Pedroso began noticing an unusual pattern in the Indigenous villages he visited in the Amazon rainforest: Next to small, often abandoned Catholic chapels were newer, often larger evangelical churches. The observation led Pedroso, a Brazilian journalist, to examine what might be leading people in Indigenous communities to essentially swap Christian faiths. It became the focus of a project he reported in the fall of 2019 for the Pulitz...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In his new book, “Church, Interrupted: Havoc & Hope: The Tender Revolt of Pope Francis,” papal historian John Cornwell forecasts the repercussions Pope Francis may have for the Catholic Church, portraying Francis as a priest, bishop and pope who has never been afraid of paving his own way. “I have focused on a consistent feature of his papacy: a capacity to hold opposites in tension, his many paradoxes giving rise to disruption,” Cornwell writes. A veteran writer on Catholic affairs, Cornwell is very much aware of the profound challenges facing the church today....

By Isabella Piro Closeness, synodality and missionary impetus: these are the cornerstones of the Pontificate of Pope Francis, who was elected eight years ago to the Chair of St. Peter. The perspective of his Pontificate starts from below, from the attention paid to those existential and geographical “peripheries” that act as a counterpoint to his being and acting. Inviting all to recover “the original freshness of the Gospel,” he urges the faithful to take up a new fervor and dynamism so that the love of Jesus can truly reach everyone. The Church desired by Pope Francis is an “outgo...

Background: In May 2016, Pope Francis responded to a question posed at the triennial assembly of the International Union of Superiors General (UISG): If women religious are already performing the many ministries of deacons, why not form a commission to study the restoration of women to the diaconate? The pope responded immediately, naming 12 scholars the following August to the Commission for the Study of the Diaconate of Women who met in Rome four times and returned a report by June 2018. The pope gave a portion of the report to the UISG leadership at their May 2019 assembly. It has n...

Pope warns against ideological elites at launch of Latin American assembly Jan 25, 2021 rome bureau chief In this file photo, Pope Francis leads the midday recitation of the Angelus Jan. 17, 2021, from the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. (Credit: CNS photo/Vatican Media.) On Sunday, the Catholic Church in Latin America launched  a consultation process that involves not only the hierarchy but also the laity, and Pope Francis reminded those taking part that "an elite illumined by one ideology or another" is not the Church. ROSARIO, Argentina — On Sunday, the Catholic Church i...