The changes, announced by the Vatican April 3, apply to both the Code of Canon Law for Latin-rite Catholics and to the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.
Pope adjusts canon law appeal period for members of religious orders
Pope calls for Indigenous quotas in world’s legislatures
“Representative bodies are inconceivable when only the dominant power occupies spaces,” the pope said.
Pope names Dominican sister to lead Academy of Social Sciences
Dominican Sister Helen Alford will be the third woman to lead the group of scholars.
Pope says be close to those ‘abandoned’ like Christ: unborn, migrants
The unborn, migrants, the elderly and the disabled are “living icons” of Jesus that call Christians to draw close to those who feel abandoned just as Christ did on the cross, Pope Francis said.
As pope leaves hospital, he comforts couple, jokes with reporters
The pope embraced a sobbing mother, whose daughter had died the night before. He reached out to the father, too, and holding their hands, he prayed with them. The pope then traced a cross on the forehead of each of them and gave them both a kiss on the cheek.
Lasting peace can exist only without weapons, pope says
For the month of April, the pope dedicated his prayer intention for a nonviolent culture.
Agriculture unions, with church’s support, fight uphill battle for farmworkers’ rights, dignity
An estimated 2.9 million seasonal, migrant, and resident laborers annually stream to dusty fields across the country to pick America’s produce.
Doctors say pope can be discharged from hospital
The pope spent about half an hour in the hospital’s pediatric oncology ward the afternoon before he was scheduled to be released from Gemelli after being treated for bronchitis.