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.
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.
A survey of 3,592 adults fielded April 6-12, 2026 finds perceptions of religion's influence at a two-decade high alongside persistent support for churches staying out of campaigns.
Miguelina Howell, a cathedral dean born in the Dominican Republic, was consecrated as the diocese's tenth bishop in Springfield on April 25, 2026.
Sarah Mullally was enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral on the Feast of the Annunciation before two thousand guests, wearing a ring given by Paul VI sixty years earlier.
Five decrees promulgated on February 21, 2026 advance a Melkite priest's miracle, an equipollent beatification, and three decrees of heroic virtue.
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.