Ahead of his 80th birthday, Cardinal Christophe Pierre sat down with ‘EWTN News In Depth’ anchor Catherine Hadro to discuss his tenure as the Vatican’s representative to the U.S.

Ahead of the Jan. 7-8 gathering, four cardinals each prepared a paper for the internal use of the cardinals taking part in ...

NEW YORK — Early next month, the Vatican will open an unprecedented gathering of Catholic clergy and laypeople from around the world. The synod is intended to be a collegial, collaborative event, ...

Pope Leo XIV is planning to convene an extraordinary consistory of cardinals in early January, the theme of which is not yet known. In a brief communication sent to cardinals on Nov. 6, and obtained ...

The synod, the first in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati in 55 years, will bring together Catholics from 19 counties to discus ...

The study groups that Pope Francis tasked with digging into some controversial topics that arose at the Synod on Synodality have published their interim reports. This week on “Inside the Vatican,” ...

(RNS) — The recently concluded extraordinary consistory, a convening of cardinals to discuss specific topics, gave a mixed message on synodality. At the consistory, they used a synodal process and ...

The story that dominated the Catholic news headlines in 2025 was, of course, the death of Pope Francis and the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV. These were NCR's most read — not necessarily the most ...