Every September, the new bishops of the Catholic Church gather in Rome to participate in a formation course, an initiative ...

After a COVID-caused hiatus, the Vatican’s new-bishop school was back in session this week. Around 150 Catholic bishops attended the first weeklong session of the formation course in Rome, which ended ...

Vatican (Agenzia Fides) - The missionary formation course, focused on the contents of the Apostolic Exhortation “Evangelii Gaudium”, organized jointly by the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU), the ...

Close to 200 bishops at the beginning of their ministries in dioceses and eparchies around the world met Pope Francis Sept. 19 at the end of a week of conferences. Because the COVID-19 pandemic had ...

Your first year at Bethel Seminary, you took a course in hermeneutics. You studied the Old and New Testaments, theology, church history. Then you took the required course in spiritual and personal ...

He led not by mandate but by example. To help us and our people remember that God, rather than the community, must be at the center of our liturgical worship, he had a prominent crucifix placed at the ...

Liaoning (Agenzia Fides) - Three years have passed since the life of the Catholic community in China began to be conditioned and, so to speak, "slowed down" due to the Covid 19 pandemic. At last now ...

Catechists in Sichuan province grieved when looking for the first time at the ghostly ruins of Beichuan, all that the 8.0-magnitude earthquake in May left of the town. Catechists from five dioceses in ...

Members of the Party and the United Front, university professors and patriotic bishops have transformed formerly "underground" priests into perfect "state officials". A report by the Patriotic ...