Focus

Amazonia: Gift and challenge (Part III)

Oct 12, 2019

This meeting of the Synod has the potential to be a powerful influence on the future life of the Church.
Synod document is to aid discussion, not be Church teaching

Oct 12, 2019

Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes said the working document for the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon is not official Church teaching but, rather, a way for bishops to listen to the local Church’s concerns.
Amazonia: Gift and challenge (Part II)

Oct 05, 2019

This is the second of a four-part series before the Synod of Bishops’ Oct 6-27 special assembly on the PanAmazonian region that will discuss the theme New Paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology.
Vatican releases list of participants for Synod on the Amazon

Oct 05, 2019

The Vatican has published the list of participants for the Special Assembly of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region, which will be held Oct 6 to 27.
Amazonia: The gift and the challenge (Part I)

Sep 28, 2019

Amazonia is a major source of the oxygen that drives physical life on the planet. It is possible that very soon we will be thanking Amazonia for spiritual refueling as well.
Attacks against Pope Francis are aimed at influencing the next conclave

Sep 28, 2019

“The attacks against Pope Francis in the church today” are “a fight between those who want the church dreamed of by the Second Vatican Council and those who do not want this,” Arturo Sosa, the Superior General of the Jesuits, stated at the Foreign Press Association in Rome on Sept. 16.
German Bishops rejected plan for Francis-style ‘Priority of Evangelization’ in synodal path

Sep 20, 2019

The German bishops have rejected an alternative proposal for a synodal process centered on the “priority of evangelization” called for by Pope Francis.
Synodality is not synonymous with democracy

Sep 20, 2019

The proposed make-up of the Synodal Assembly is “not ecclesiologically valid.” It cited the bishops’ proposed partnership with the Central Committee of German Catholics, a lay group that has taken public stances against a range of Church teachings, including on women’s ordination and sexual morality.
German synod plans ‘not ecclesiologically valid’

Sep 20, 2019

In a letter sent to German bishops last week, the Vatican has said that plans for a binding Church synod in Germany are “not ecclesiologically valid.”
Fires on the African continent and those of the Amazon

Sep 14, 2019

NASA has said Africa is home to at least 70% of the 10,000 fires burning worldwide on an average August day, though the agency says the number of fires is consistent from year to year.