The Vatican may make “spiritual abuse” a formalized crime in Church law, rather than merely an aggravating circumstance of other crimes. The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) is forming a working group with the Dicastery for Legislative Texts with “the...
Pope Francis has written a note to accompany the Final Document of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, a text that captures the results of the two-year-long Synod of Bishops on Synodality which Pope Francis called for in October 2021 that...
Pope Francis on November 11 met with the Holy Synod of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, marking an historic first visit to Rome and confirming the good relations of this ancient Oriental Indian Church. Mar Thoma Syrian Church traces its origins back to the...
Catholic leaders from across Europe are in Rome this week to discuss how the Church can best protect children from sexual abuse and how to help those who have already been hurt by it. The Vatican’s Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors (PCPM) is hosting a...
In Italy’s Valley of Ledro, nestled near the old Austro-Hungarian border just kilo-meters from Lake Garda, locals are rallying to save a 200-year-old fir tree, famously known as the Green Giant. Towering at thirty meters and standing for centuries, this maje-stic tree...
