Pope approved the measures to contain costs and ensure employees are not laid off

The statement came days before the launch of a yearlong reflection on “Amoris Laetitia” that will focus on the family and conjugal love

Amy-Jill Levine of Vanderbilt University and Marc Zvi Brettler discuss “how Jews and Christians read the same stories differently.”

Pope warns against sinful human inclination to define some people as “us” and others as “them”

Pope Francis underlined the importance of collaboration and friendship among religious communities

“It is a time to reconsider the path we are taking…and to rediscover our profound relationship with God, on whom everything depends,” he said.

“I am the pastor of people who are suffering,” Pope Francis told CNS ahead of the first-ever papal visit to Iraq March 5-8.

Xaviere Missionary Sister Nathalie Becquart will be the first woman with a right to vote at a meeting of the Synod of Bishops

The celebration will coincide with the feast of Sts. Joachim and Anne, Jesus’ grandparents. The first celebration of this day will be July 25.

Pope Francis encouraged everyone who could get the vaccine to do so to protect themselves and others.

This formalizes the practice that most dioceses around the world have permitted for decades, that women and girls can read and serve at Mass.