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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...

https://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/papal-adviser-writes-lengthy-analysis-of-pope-francis-governance-and-reform

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...

https://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/german-synodal-path-to-vote-on-defining-fertility-to-include-same-sex-and-o

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...

https://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/pope-francis-to-resume-general-audiences-in-presence-of-the-faithful

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...

https://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/pope-francis-marks-4th-anniversary-of-italys-devastating-earthquake

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...

https://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/archbishop-gaenswein-benedict-xvis-illness-is-subsiding

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 ...

https://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/church-leaders-in-lebanon-appeal-for-aid-in-wake-of-explosion

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...

https://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/my-reasons-for-writing-the-next-pope

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...

https://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/moral-theologian-criticizes-vague-pontifical-academy-covid-19-document

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...

https://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/archbishop-ganswein-pope-emeritus-benedicts-ailment-is-not-serious

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...

https://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/coronavirus-has-changed-the-way-italians-go-to-mass-and-not-for-the-better

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...

https://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/chinese-infiltration-of-vatican-networks-was-no-surprise-says-father-cervel

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...

https://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/why-did-the-pope-drop-mention-of-hong-kong-at-sunday-angelus

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...

https://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/an-interview-with-ennio-morricone

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...

https://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/vatican-appoints-canonist-to-look-into-communion-and-liberations-lay-associ