By Edward Pentin | For Pope Francis, governing and reforming the Church are matters of “discernment,” “self-emptying” and “conversion” rather than imposing “prepackaged ideas.” Th...
By Edward Pentin | Participants in the German Church’s Synodal Path will cast a series of votes on human sexuality and relationships tomorrow, including one proposition suggesting that same-sex...
By Edward Pentin | The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis’ weekly general audiences will resume with the presence of the faithful from Sept. 2. In a statement, the Vatican said the decisio...
By Edward Pentin | VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis recalled the devastating earthquake that struck central Italy four years ago today by publishing a tweet expressing his solidarity with those hard...
By Edward Pentin | A skin disease that has been afflicting Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is “subsiding” and he is on the mend, his personal secretary Archbishop Georg Gänswein has said. Speak...
By Edward Pentin | The Maronite Catholic Church in Lebanon, along with Catholic aid agencies around the world, are appealing for aid after Tuesday’s deadly explosion in the port of Beirut that ...
By Edward Pentin | Unlike a typical election cycle in which ballots can take place every four or five years, conclaves can happen at any moment. Dependent on when a pope dies or decides to retire...
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By Edward Pentin | VATICAN CITY — A former director of the secretariat of the Pontifical Academy for Life has criticized a document the academy issued on the coronavirus last month, saying that...
By Edward Pentin | VATICAN CITY — The health condition of Pope Emeritus Benedict “does not give cause for particular concern, except for a 93-year-old man who is overcoming the most acute pha...
By Edward Pentin | In recent days I visited a number of churches in Italy and the alpine regions of Germany and Austria and was especially struck by how detrimental the reaction to the coronaviru...
By Edward Pentin | Reports that Chinese hackers had infiltrated the computer networks of the Vatican, the diocese of Hong Kong, and those of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME) i...
By Edward Pentin | VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis’ last-minute decision not to speak about troubles in Hong Kong at the Angelus on Sunday has caused a good deal of discussion in Italian media. A...
By Edward Pentin | ROME — A very private funeral for the popular film-score composer Ennio Morricone took place yesterday evening in Rome, the same day he died at the age of 91. According to Mo...
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By Edward Pentin | Editor’s Note: This interview was conducted in Italian and translated by Edward Pentin. It originally appeared Nov. 9, 2009, at the Register and is presented here on the occa...
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By Edward Pentin | The Vatican has appointed a commission headed by an apostolic delegate to revise the statutes and directorate of the lay association Memores Domini — consecrated lay faithful...