#General assembly

Card. Bassetti: “Rising COVID infections require increased responsibility”

Card. Bassetti opened the extraordinary General Assembly of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI) touching on current events – the pandemic,…

CEI Assembly. Card. Bassetti: “Synodality is in full harmony with the path undertaken by the Italian Church”

Card. Bassetti devoted most of his introductory speech to Italian bishops gathered in their Assembly meeting, opened yesterday by Pope…

Pope Francis to the Italian bishops: “The Synod must start from the bottom up. The light shines from Florence”

Pope Francis opened the 74th General Assembly of the Italian bishops with an unscripted speech in which he referred to…

Card. Bassetti: “Participate in the vote to bring more Italy into Europe”

In the concluding remarks of his address that opened the Italian bishops’ Assembly, Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti made an appeal to…

Europe: card. Bassetti, “going to the polls”. “Populist and nationalist winds are blowing”: “As Italians, we should be the best face of Europe”

Mission: Card. Bassetti, “it is not about churning out a new series of activities to be undertaken”. “Abandon the attitude ‘We have always done it this way”

Pope Francis: “Synodality is the medical record of the Italian Church”

Synodality as the “medical record”, canonical marriage reform yet to be applied, the relationship between bishops and priests as the…