Millions of visitors will flock to the Parisian cathedral after it reopens in December for the first time since a destructive fire in 2019.
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Vatican Sets Out New Rules to Simplify Papal Funerals
Pope Francis’s down-to-earth style has become a trademark of his papacy. New rules for papal burials are another step to seal it into his legacy.
Conversations With Murray Sinclair
Thoughts from the former head of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, who was also a former senator and the first Indigenous person in Manitoba to become a judge.
Pope Francis Wants to Save the Environment. He Can Start With a Tree.
Environmentalists have called on the pope to halt the chopping down of a tree destined for St. Peter’s Square this Christmas, but the town providing the tree says it was doomed anyway.
Notre-Dame Cathedral Is Ready to Reopen in December
Millions of visitors are expected at the cathedral after it reopens in December for the first time since the devastating 2019 fire.
Vatican Issues First Report on Sex Abuse, to Immediate Criticism
The report is intended to assess efforts by the Roman Catholic Church to safeguard minors and others. Advocates for survivors called it an exercise in obfuscation.
For Catholic Jubilee, Days of Joy and Sadness in Rome and Bethlehem
For Rome, the rare Christmas Eve rite of redemption is cause for celebration this year. For Bethlehem, it is another grim reminder of the generations of war and deprivation.
At Vatican Synod, Women’s Issues Are Relegated to a Side Group
A meeting four years in the making said the ordination of women required further study, but it called for women to have more leadership roles, even in seminaries.
New Pope Francis Encyclical Urges Catholics to Reject Individualism
In an encyclical titled “He Loved Us,” Francis draws on spiritual themes in the hopes of helping people find deeper meaning while living in today’s hectic societies.
Gustavo Gutiérrez, Father of Liberation Theology, Dies at 96
Once considered revolutionary, his notion of empathy and advocacy for the poor has become a central tenet of Catholic social teaching.