Cardinal-designate Víctor Manuel Fernández, the new prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, offered a critical assessment of Veritatis Splendor [The Splendor of Truth], Pope St. John Paul II’s 1993 encyclical on certain fundamental questions of the Church’s moral teaching.
POPE FRANCIS TO CONFER NEW LAY MINISTRIES FOR FIRST TIME IN ST. PETER’S BASILICA
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector, and acolyte upon lay men and
