EXPLAINER: How can Catholic monks bless same-sex unions?
ROME — The Vatican doc explicitly saying Catholic monks can bless same-sex unions lays out the circumstances for what such blessings can, and can’t, contain. The general aim is to…
Pope will open an enormous Vatican assembly as battle strains are drawn on his reform challenge
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Wednesday opens an enormous assembly on the way forward for the Catholic Church, with progressives hoping it’ll result in extra girls in management roles…
Girls’s voices and votes loom massive as pope opens Vatican assembly on church’s future
VATICAN CITY — Just a few years in the past, Pope Francis informed the top of the principle Vatican-backed Catholic girls’s group to be “courageous” in pushing for change for…
Pope joins shamans, monks and evangelicals to spotlight Mongolia’s religion variety
ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia — With China’s crackdown on non secular minorities as a backdrop, Pope Francis joined Mongolian shamans, Buddhist monks and a Russian Orthodox priest Sunday to spotlight the function…
German police search church properties in probe of Cologne archbishop over perjury allegations
BERLIN — German police and prosecutors searched Catholic Church properties on Tuesday in reference to a probe of the archbishop of Cologne in western Germany over perjury allegations, authorities stated.…
Mexican artisans create ‘Judas’ figures for others to burn
MEXICO CITY — After two months of arduous work assembling and portray devil-like cardboard figures popularly referred to as “Judas,” Mexican artisan Marcela Villarreal is keen to look at her…