Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation on the Amazon region will be published Feb. 12, the Vatican announced Friday. The document, which follows October's Synod of Bishops on the Amazon, is highly ...

Pope Francis will release a follow-up document on the environment on Oct. 4, providing an update to his 2015 encyclical "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home" — a landmark papal letter that ...

UPDATE: Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi told reporters March 17 that the apostolic exhortation will be released sometime after Easter week, in the first half of April. Cardinal Walter ...

Cardinal Claudio Hummes, the general relator of the Pan-Amazon Synod last October, has written a letter to bishops saying Pope Francis’ post-synodal apostolic exhortation is expected to be ...

In the midst of a busy week, Pope Francis used 4 October, the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi, to publish a new Apostolic Exhortation, titled Laudate Deum (“Praise God”). The exhortation, which is ...

Pope Francis speaks to members of the Synod of Bishops on synodality after they approved their final document Oct. 26, 2024, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) ...

In a radical departure from recent pastoral practice, Pope Francis has asked the world's Catholic clergy to let their lives become "wonderfully complicated" by embracing God's grace at work in the ...

To absorb quickly the key points in what is a 47,500 word document, ucanews.com highlights some significant sections in the Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium. This exhortation ...