In ”The Magician’s Nephew,” C. S. Lewis tells the story of Uncle Andrew, a pompous, self-important magician who finds himself present at the creation of Narnia as it is sung into being by the great ...

Pope Leo was welcomed in France by large and enthusiastic crowds. The country, in which fewer than 5% of Catholics attend ...

The trip marked the Italian cardinal’s third mission to Moscow, following visits in June 2023 and October 2024, but the first ...

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The patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church told The Pillar Tuesday that a Vatican cardinal is behind a recent papal law ...

The statement was issued after a Sept. 14 meeting in Rome between the pontifical delegates overseeing the IVE and its female counterpart, the Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matará, the ...

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced earlier this month the creation of a Task Force on Preserving Human Dignity ...

When the Vatican’s synod on synodality concluded in 2024 — if synods can ever really come to an end — among the remaining tasks to be taken up in Rome was a commission to suggest changes to the Code ...

German bishops’ conference chairman Bishop Heiner Wilmer said Monday that he hoped the Vatican would respond to a request to approve a new national body known as the synodal conference by the end of ...

In a statement released Sept. 28, Ignatius Youssef III Younan said that since he had already issued a convocation of the sui ...

St. Francis was indeed a saint of the 13th century, but he’s also, I’d say, a human archetype, and that’s why he remains alive. Marking this moment of anthropological crises that we’re experiencing, I ...

The Roman Pontiff is so back. He’s back from France, I mean. Pope Leo just spent the weekend on a Franco-pilgrimage that’s making headlines around the world. It was a pilgrimage of human dignity.