Pope Francis reassured the synod fathers that the Catholic doctrine on marriage had not been put into question at the Extraordinary Synod in 2014 and so retains its full validity.
Gerard O’Connell
Gerard O’Connell is America’s senior Vatican correspondent and author of The Election of Pope Francis: An Inside Story of the Conclave That Changed History. He has been covering the Vatican since 1985.
Posted inDispatches
Differences Emerge Immediately at the Synod on the Family
The Hungarian cardinal, Peter Erdo, is playing a crucial role in the synod on the family, and now a somewhat controversial one.
Posted inSynod on the Family
Pope tells synod fathers to clothe themselves in courage, humility and prayer
Francis says synod is not a ‘talk shop’ or conference but ‘a protected space where the church experiences that action of the Holy Spirit.’
Posted inSynod on the Family
Pope to Synod: The church must be a bridge, not a roadblock
Pope Francis analyzed the real and often dramatic situation of people in today’s globalized world, marked by “a growing loneliness and vulnerability,” the image of which is “the family.”
Posted inSynod on the Family
Pope, at prayer vigil for synod, hopes for rediscovery of a church that ‘can unite compassion with justice’
Pope Francis will open the synod tomorrow morning, Oct. 4, with a concelebrated mass in St Peter’s Basilica attended by 270 synod fathers from all continents.
Posted inSynod on the Family
Vatican theologian declares he’s gay and has a partner
The Vatican has denounced as ldquo very serious and irresponsible rdquo the decision by Monsignor Krzysztof Charamsa an official of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith CDF to announce publicly on the eve of the synod of bishops on the family that he is homosexual and has a partner
Posted inSigns Of the Times
In Cuba, Pope Urges Young to Be Signs of Hope
Minutes after arriving in Cuba on Sept. 19, Pope Francis hailed “the process of normalizing relations between the two peoples of Cuba and the United States” after more than 50 years of estrangement as “a sign of the victory of the culture of encounter and dialogue” that
Posted inSynod on the Family
A Synod of Solutions?
Some 250 bishops from all over the world will gather in synod in the Vatican from Oct. 4 to 25 for what many consider to be the most important assembly of this kind since the Second Vatican Council. They gather exactly 50 years after that council to focus on the family and, in the words of Pope Fran
Posted inVatican Dispatch
In China, Fear of Faith
The crackdown against Christianity has taken various forms.
Posted inVatican Dispatch
Pope Francis brings radical Gospel message to the US
This week-long journey takes him first to Cuba and then to the United States and is widely considered “the big one” of the year.