LETTER FROM VATICAN CITY about the death of Pope John XXIII and about the conclave which is due to convene and elect a new pope. The cardinals will have sixteen days to get to the conclave.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The head of the Vatican’s doctrinal department issued a letter on Monday (Oct. 21) dashing hopes that Pope Francis will approve the ordination of women as deacons in the ...

The Vatican’s note to the letter, dated a week later, is not particularly encouraging: “You can respond that only Jews who converted before 1935 receive a visa.” There are, in fact ...

The letter was published as Francis registered slight improvements in his treatment and as the Vatican No. 2, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, shot down any suggestion the pope might resign.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — The Vatican has responded with letters to 14 area churches slated to close or merge as part of the Diocese of Buffalo’s Road to Renewal. The letters call to suspend the ...

The requirement to put a closure plan in place, submit it to the Bishop - and only then is a parish given ten days to file an appeal of their church closing with the Bishop and the Vatican - is ...

But it was during a stop at the Vatican last year that something changed. Inspired, curious, and full of wonder, the boy asked if he could write a letter to the pope. So, he did: “Dear Papa ...

The problem for the Vatican, as one prelate expressed it ... together with Cardinal Spellman and others, circulated a letter urging the Fathers to vote non placet on Chapter V, or, if their ...

(RNS) — The issue of women deacons had been a major theme of the current Vatican synod on how to make the Catholic Church more welcoming and transparent. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The head of the ...