Bishops who want to establish a religious order in their dioceses must first obtain the written permission of the Holy See, Pope Francis said.
Amending canon law, the pope said it no longer is enough for ...
Following the release of Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis’ new encyclical on fraternity and social friendship, the staff at Our Sunday Visitor has compiled a selection of quotations from the document to help give readers a ...
Pope Francis' social encyclical sees the need for human fraternity as more than just an abstract concept, but as a concrete path toward peaceful coexistence in a world fraught by war, said Cardinal Pietro Parolin.
At ...
On Satuday, Pope Francis signed his new encyclical in Assisi, Italy. If Laudato Si', Pope Francis' second encyclical, released in 2015, was a papal plea to care for our common home, then Fratelli Tutti (unofficially ...
Bringing the Vatican official in charge of translations with him, Pope Francis signed his new encyclical, "Fratelli Tutti, on Fraternity and Social Friendship," at the tomb of St. Francis of Assisi, source of the document's ...
Pope Francis will travel to Assisi Oct. 3 to sign an encyclical on the social, political and economic obligations that flow from a belief that all people are children of God and therefore brothers and ...
The Our Sunday Visitor Editorial Board writes, since the publication of Pope Francis’ exhortation on the Amazon, we have heard much about what the document does not contain. We know that after months of speculation, ...
Bishops from throughout the world gave high marks to Pope Francis' new apostolic exhortation "Querida Amazonia," taking note of the care with which it was crafted to include the Amazon region's distinct characteristics and its ...
The Vatican will present Pope Francis’ much-anticipated post-synodal apostolic exhortation on the Amazon Synod during a press conference on Feb. 12, the Holy See announced Friday. The document will be titled Querida Amazonia (“Dear Amazonia”) ...
On Dec. 1, the Vatican released Pope Francis’ apostolic letter Admirabile Signum on the importance and meaning of the Christmas crèche. In his letter, the pope draws on Scripture and Tradition to remind the faithful ...