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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Friday Pope Francis stopped by a formation course for bishops on the new marriage nullity process, telling attendees that as bishops, and now as local judges in annulment cases, they must pursue ...

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 ...

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 ...