Every September, the new bishops of the Catholic Church gather in Rome to participate in a formation course, an initiative ...

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 ...

Pope Leo XIV spent more than three hours this morning with 192 new bishops from around the world, including from the United States.

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 ...

Shi Jia Zhuang (Agenzia Fides) – “It has been a unique opportunity for us to know, exchange, and discuss many spiritual aspects in depth. It has been a help to us by offering us an excellent ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...