By Eve Tushnet, February 8, 2024 Simon Cereno had been expecting a normal, if not a quiet, Christmas with his large Italian-American family.  But on December 18, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith released Fiducia supplicans, and headlines like “POPE APPROVES SAME-SEX... read more

By Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency, March 10, 2023 In a new interview, Pope Francis has discussed the possibility of revising the Western discipline of priestly celibacy. “There is no contradiction for a priest to marry. Celibacy in the Western Church is a temporary prescription:... read more

By Charles Collins, Catholic Herald, February 18, 2021 Pope Francis recently lamented the fact that a declaration of matrimonial nullity “is thought of as a cold act, a mere ‘legal decision’.” In an annual address to the Roman Rota — the Vatican court that mostly handles appeals of... read more