The special synod for the “Pan-Amazonian Region” has a difficult question to answer: Why should the Church intensify its efforts in these remote mission lands if the mission itself is unclear? The ...

According to the media, the most important issues facing the Synod on Synodality are the possibility of married priests, women deacons and the blessing of gay couples. The first session of the synod ...

Children jump from a rickety bridge into a river near Anapu, in Brazil’s northern Para state. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the ...

(RNS) — If we continued as usual with just different people in charge, then we missed the revolution Pope Francis is calling for. (RNS) — According to the media, the most important issues facing the ...