After a COVID-caused hiatus, the Vatican’s new-bishop school was back in session this week. Around 150 Catholic bishops attended the first weeklong session of the formation course in Rome, which ended ...

Vatican (Agenzia Fides) - The missionary formation course, focused on the contents of the Apostolic Exhortation “Evangelii Gaudium”, organized jointly by the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU), the ...

Your first year at Bethel Seminary, you took a course in hermeneutics. You studied the Old and New Testaments, theology, church history. Then you took the required course in spiritual and personal ...

Yamoussoukro (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Conference of the Ivory Coast through its national subcommittee Justice and Peace organized from 3 to 6 March a training formation on the social doctrine ...

He led not by mandate but by example. To help us and our people remember that God, rather than the community, must be at the center of our liturgical worship, he had a prominent crucifix placed at the ...

Close to 200 bishops at the beginning of their ministries in dioceses and eparchies around the world met Pope Francis Sept. 19 at the end of a week of conferences. Because the COVID-19 pandemic had ...

The Centre of Ignatian Spirituality in collaboration with the Institute of Pastoral Formation is organising a three-year course in Maltese for people who wish to deepen their spiritual life, offer ...

Catechists in Sichuan province grieved when looking for the first time at the ghostly ruins of Beichuan, all that the 8.0-magnitude earthquake in May left of the town. Catechists from five dioceses in ...

Members of the Party and the United Front, university professors and patriotic bishops have transformed formerly "underground" priests into perfect "state officials". A report by the Patriotic ...