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What happens when a Catholic priest fathers a child? A Vatican cardinal answers

Guidelines were to make it easier for those men to leave the priesthood to care for their children and be real dads - Cardinal Stella

The Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts

Featured here is the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts with an interview with its President, Archbishop Filippo Iannone.

Priests Gather to Pray the Rosary Live on Special Day

NBVM-SCIC parish hosted around 50 priests from all over the country to a virtual Rosary on the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

STRONGER PENAL LAW AFTER CHURCH ABUSE SCANDAL

A Press Conference in the Holy See Press Office highlights the changes made to Book VI of the Code of Canon Law. Changes made to Book VI...

POPE REFORMS PENAL SANCTIONS IN THE CHURCH: Mercy requires correction

With the Apostolic Constitution “Pascite Gregem Dei,” Pope Francis reforms Book VI of the Code of Canon Law, continuing a revision begun...

BISHOP ARRIETA: How Book VI of Canon Law has changed

The Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts presents the Apostolic Constitution "Pascite gregem Dei". He explains that...

POPE FRANCIS RE-NAMES CARDINAL BURKE TO VATICAN'S HIGHEST COURT

Saturday the Vatican announced Pope Francis’ appointment of Cardinal Raymond Burke as a member of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic...

POPE APPOINTS LEADERSHIP AT CONGREGATION FOR DIVINE WORSHIP

Pope Francis appoints Archbishop Arthur Roche as the new Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, and Archbishop Vittorio...

CARDINAL LADARIA: Pastoral Care, Church Law are not in conflict in Marriage Cases

The prefect of the Vatican’s doctrinal office stressed on Tuesday that in marriage annulment or dissolution cases, the Church’s...

POPE FRANCIS: Ministries of Lector and Acolyte to be open to women

Pope Francis changes the Code of Canon Law to institutionalize what is already allowed in practice: the access of lay women to the...