VATICAN CITY (RNS) — When the 450 bishops, priests, nuns and lay Catholics who participated in October’s nearly monthlong Synod on Synodality finished their work Oct. 28, they had not called for women ...

Leaders of the national conferences of Catholic bishops will soon convene Feb. 21-24 in Rome to collectively confront the scourge of clerical sex abuse that failures in leadership have allowed to ...

“We don’t intend to exercise any political power — on the contrary. But we insist on human values, and that is the most important.” That’s how Cardinal Pio Laghi sums up his service as the papal ...