The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors issued findings and recommendations in its pilot annual report, specifically calling for greater transparency from the Vatican’s sex abuse office, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.

A Reflection for the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, by Connor Hartigan

Some Catholic voters are struggling with their decision and may not make up their minds until it’s time to pull the lever—and that group could very well decide the election.

The Vatican of ’Conclave’ is worldly with men’s ambitions and weighty with papal history

There’s an old joke that a camel is what you get when a horse has been designed by a committee. The synod’s final document bears the camel-like appearance of committee drafting. Maybe that‘s a good thing.

“The second and final session of the Synod on Synodality has just concluded,” Father James Martin writes. “And what I noticed most this year is how much the attitude toward L.G.B.T.Q. issues has changed—and for the good.”

At the end of the second session of the Synod on Synodality, Jesuitical spoke with Cardinal Joseph Tobin about the synod’s final document, which kept open the question of women’s access to the diaconate.

Pope Francis delivered a homily during the closing Mass for the Synod of Bishops in St. Peter's Basilica Oct. 27.

"I do not intend to publish an apostolic exhortation. What we have approved is enough," Pope Francis said. Instead, he ordered the publication of the synod's final document.