This week, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Francis Prevost, prefect of the Dicastery of Bishops, and Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, sent a letter to the German Synodal Path with the request not to vote on the establishment of a Management [...]

Once upon a time, there were three Popes. One was the White Pope, the Pontifex Maximus, the head of the Catholic Church and the Vicar of Christ above all. Then there was the Black Pope, the General of the Jesuits, who had among other things a special vow of obedience to the Pope. Finally, [...]

In yet another editorial effort of recent times, Pope Francis had a conversation with ABC’s Vatican correspondent Javier Martinez Brocal to share his memories with Benedict XVI. The book is called El Sucesor. Mi recuerdos con Benedicto XVI, and the announcement of its publication came a few days before February 11, the day on [...]

Speaking with La Stampa newspaper last January 29, Pope Francis returned to the Conclave that elected him Pope. He recounted some known information, such as the applause for him after his speech about the “outgoing” Church. He defined that applause as “unprecedented” and said, “That speech was my condemnation.” And then he commented: [...]