The bishops will serve one year as chair-elect and assume the positions in the fall of 2027.

“Let us entrust him to the merciful love of the Lord,” the archbishop wrote in a letter to the faithful. “Let us pray for his parishioners, shocked by this unexpected news.”

The exorcists discussed the importance of sacred music and the “essential” place of the Virgin Mary’s intercession in exorcisms.

Multiple religious objectors are suing the state over its newly instituted assisted suicide regime.

“The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person,” the Holy See’s permanent observer to the U.N. said during the 81st General Assembly.

A century after the Cristero War began in 1926, scholars gathered to discuss the church-state relationship in Mexico and Latin America.

At a Mass opening the academic year, the pontiff warned against false teachers, stressed the limits of algorithms, and called for study rooted in faith, friendship, and service to the poor.

The Irish religious sister, who previously spoke about women who sensed a call to the priesthood or diaconate, will also serve as adjunct secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization.

The Texas law “forces state-sponsored religious instruction” on public school students, the filing says.

The pontiff marked the 100th anniversary of World Mission Day.