The Vatican announced July 25, 2026, that Pope Leo XIV named Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco and Bishop Edward M. Lohse of Kalamazoo, Mich., to the Vatican's highest court, the ...

CanonLaw.Ninja will be able to continue its operations with a different translation owned by the Canon Law Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Father Paul Hedman is the priest behind CanonLaw.Ninja.

When Pope Francis abolished the "pontifical secret" covering the Church's judicial handling of cases of the sexual abuse of minors, it was hailed as a major step forward in promoting greater ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — When the 450 bishops, priests, nuns and lay Catholics who participated in October’s nearly monthlong Synod on Synodality finished their work Oct. 28, they had not called for women ...