The news file for religious institutions: appointments and successions, synod and council decisions, seminary openings and closures, newly released translations, and disputes that affect congregations. Entries are dated, sourced and written without taking sides. For clergy, seminarians, journalists and readers who follow religious institutions closely.
Five days of London sessions approved a new safeguarding structure outside the hierarchy, reworked clergy discipline, and concluded the church's six-year project on sexuality and marriage.
A January 28 ceremony at St Paul's Cathedral made the former Bishop of London the first woman to hold the office legally, with her installation at Canterbury set for March.
Pope Leo XIV convened the College of Cardinals for two days of closed-door consultation on evangelization, the Curia, synodality and the liturgy, and set a second gathering for June.