Anyone who has ever been in a serious relationship will probably identify with the old and by now cliché adage, “it’s not what you said, it’s how you said it” at the end of some form of disagreement.

The director of the Catholic Research Centre in Kuala Lumpur offers an initial assessment for Asia of the path Pope Francis ...

As things stand, partly due to the clericalist mindset of many Filipino Catholics, bishops are actually well taken care of by ...

(RNS) — The recently concluded extraordinary consistory, a convening of cardinals to discuss specific topics, gave a mixed message on synodality. At the consistory, they used a synodal process and ...

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday urged Christians to deepen their common witness by growing in “ecumenical synodal practices,” ...

Ahead of his 80th birthday, Cardinal Christophe Pierre sat down with ‘EWTN News In Depth’ anchor Catherine Hadro to discuss ...

The German Synodal Assembly met for the sixth and final time to review its work and to prepare for the Synodal Conference of ...

The four documents Pope Leo XIV ordered drawn up to inform a recent gathering of cardinals at the Vatican each took a somewhat different approach, a Crux review has determined, with each document ...

Convened in Rome by the pope they elected just eight months ago, the world's cardinals were given a crash course in collegiality. Sitting in small groups of five to 11 at roundtables, the 170 ...

Pope Leo XIV gathered cardinals present for the extraordinary consistory this week for an early morning Mass Jan. 8 in St. Peter's Basilica, telling them they're together not to promote "agendas," but ...

Cardinals listen as Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass on the feast of the Epiphany in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Jan. 6, 2026. Credit: OSV News photo/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media As this issue ...