Francis also changed the norms of the office so that the dean would be elected to a five-year term renewable only once.

Pope Francis stressed the need for reform and a new approach to evangelization in his annual Christmas address to the Roman Curia. America‘s Vatican correspondent, Gerard O'Connell, reports.

The clergy need to rethink our approach to ministry through wide research and consultation among women of diverse ethnicities, languages, sexual identities and classes.

Being courtside at a presidential candidate debate sounds thrilling, but it turns out that you don’t get a great view of all the candidates. While I can see Biden’s head, I cannot see the body to which it is attached, and from my angle Senator Elizabeth Warren is just a left arm. Worse, Mayor Pete Buttigieg is a haunting disembodied voice.

Notre Dame kept Christmas going even during two world wars — a beacon of hope amid the bloodshed. Yet an accidental fire in peacetime finally stopped the Paris cathedral from celebrating Midnight Mass this year, for the first time in over two centuries.

As dawn broke after polling day, it was clear that the Boris Johnson earthquake had shattered the “red wall” of Labour strongholds across north Wales and in England’s northwest, Midlands and northeast.

More painful, though not treated in the exhibition, is the current situation of Sudan, which only became independent from British colonial rule in 1956.

There was something truly inspiring about the presence of these undocumented students at a moment that could very well determine their place in this country.

The president of the United States attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president's political opponents," he wrote.

Some 800 students met Pope Francis there Dec. 20; he was ready to listen to their questions and offer his reflections.

“I’ve been asked: How did you build this character? I didn’t. He did, and I follow in his footsteps.”

This is the story of the AIDS crisis from the perspective of a priest, trying to figure out what he could do to help.

“The Catholic Church does not view the sacramental seal as incompatible with maintaining child safety. The Church wants measures that will genuinely make environments safer for children. There has been no compelling evidence to suggest that legal abolition of the seal of confession will help in that regard.”

We did not undergo the prenatal testing that can identify the condition when I was pregnant with Dylan. We knew that the results would not change anything, and our doctor was fine with our decision.

The vulnerability of the Virgin still dispels distortions that we would create about her Son. He is not a figure of myth nor the creation of dogma. He is a man born to a woman, living in poverty.

Speaking to the group of diplomats, the pope dedicated his brief talk to "the path to peace"

The group, which included 14 children and teens, arrived in Rome from the Greek island of Lesbos Dec. 4.