Given talk of European Catholic 'diversity,' there is a palpable anxiety amongst African Catholics about the potential erosion of core Catholic teachings and the traditions which we have embraced for decades.
The Pope’s overhaul of the Vatican’s more detailed workings continues with another set of documents aiming to convince the world the Vatican finances are on the path to reform.
The American cardinal highlighted numerous concerns about the Synod on Synodality, warning ‘the invocation of the Holy Spirit’ by Synod proponents is to advance an ‘agenda that is more political and human than ecclesial and divine.’
Pope Francis' new motu proprio notes that assets acquired by entities of the Roman Curia are owned by the Holy See, not the individual institutions: but why has he stated this?
The Pope cannot change the Church's hierarchical and sacramental order by appointing lay people as heads of a diocese or of a curial office, the former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith emphasized.