The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, resigned last week over his role—mainly of inaction or insufficient action after the fact—in the cover-up of sexual abuse.

Welby’s resignation came mere days after a major independent inquiry concluded he had not sufficiently reported, investigated, or contained John Smythe, a man described as “the most prolific [...]

After Bishop Paskalis Syukur asked not to be created cardinal, Pope Francis decided that the number of red hats with the right to vote in the Conclave would remain unchanged: there will be 20. In Syukur’s place, Pope Francis has decided to give the red hat to the Archbishop of Naples, Domenico Battaglia.

Pope [...]

For all the expectations the late synod on synodality created, it really turned out to be a wet squib. One thing the synod accomplished, however, was to make the language in which the Church describes herself more sociological.

Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, general rapporteur, presented a detail of the Synod’s final document as the real [...]