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Reform and Responsibility: Leo XIV Reshapes Vatican Governance from Finance to Safeguarding

Taken together, these moves suggest that Leo XIV is neither dismantling nor dramatically reinventing the reforms initiated under his predecessor. Instead, he appears to be reinforc...

Rule of law and reform of justice in the Church: Part 1 of a series

The task of justice reform is irreducibly complex, but it is only one part of a larger problem: Recovery of “rule of law” as an idea that informs Church governing structures and sh...

Canon ousted from council’s standards board after Reform UK takes over Calderdale

REFORM UK on Calderdale Council, in West Yorkshire, in sweeping changes after winning 34 of the 54 seats, has removed the Vicar of Halifax Minster, Canon Hilary Barber, as the long...

Pope Leo Explains Why Vatican II’s Reform Did Not Change Only ‘the Rites’ of the Liturgy

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Pope Leo calls for 'openness' to church reform that respects tradition

Amid renewed tensions between the Vatican and traditionalist Catholics over the teachings of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Leo XIV defended church reform as a legitimate process...

Vatican rejection of reforms would be 'catastrophe' for German Church

The head of the Central Committee of German Catholics, Irme Stetter-Karp, has urged the Vatican not to reject German Church's reform process, reported dpa. Speaking at a national...

Pope Leo authorizes bishops to remove superiors of autonomous monasteries

Catholic podcaster Ryan Grant called the new canon law rule ‘one the most revolutionary changes in the history of the Church.’

Women and the Catholic Church: Reform has long been promised, but real change has been denied

While the new Pope Leo may be a welcome and outspoken leader, women remain excluded from power and decision-making in a Church still struggling to modernise, writes Fr Tony Flanner...

Tanzania Lutheran Church plans major governance reform

On May 10, 2026, ELCT Secretary General Rogath Mollel said the church had been conducting an internal self-assessment to determine how effectively its systems were functioning and...

Decorum restored

by Damian Thompson, Spectator Pope Leo XIV is quietly reshap­ing the Vat­ican On the after­noon of Easter Sunday last year, Pope Fran­cis was driven through St Peter’s Square in an...

What is it about Reform?

Reform is rising because trust in politics has collapsed. Economic insecurity, failing public services, unaffordable housing, insecure work and a loss of belonging have created Rea...

Vatican II, 60 years after and two lessons for evangelicals

Evangelicals should study the inner dynamics of Rome that allows it to change but not reform itse...

Counter-Reformation

I’m back in high school, and in a good way. On occasion, my teacher would pull out a film projector, and we’d... The post Counter-Reformation first appeared on Film Threat.

Church magazine ditches Reform name over party confusion

A PROTESTANT church magazine has ditched the name Reform, saying readers got “fed up” of it being mistaken for a publication linked to the political party

Leo XIV turns the consistory into a laboratory for mission and governance

At the heart of the June discussions lies a dual axis: missionary renewal and structural reform. The Pope’s letter places renewed emphasis on Evangelii Gaudium, the 2013 apostolic...

Leo XIV authorizes a diocesan bishop to remove the superior of a monastery

Although the language belongs to the world of canon law, the practical question behind the reform is straightforward: who has the authority to remove the superior of a monastery wh...

Defense Secretary Hegseth Removes Top Army Chaplain Amid Iran War, Chaplaincy Reform

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In Kesteren is de reformatorische kerk springlevend. ‘Jaloersmakend, die gemeenschapszin’

BREAKING: ‘He is no Pope at all’ – Traditional Redemptorists reject Leo XIV and predecessors

The Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer have denounced the reforms of the Second Vatican Council and called for a solution.

How Reform can be challenged

The second part of my three-part series on Reform is out this morning on Substack. You can find it here. Please give the process of Read the full article...

The Real Religious 'Renewal' Happening in Gen Z

Luis Parrales, The Atlantic Each Sunday, a group of Catholics meets in the basement of St. Joseph's Church in Greenwich Village after the 6 p.m. Mass. They...

Reforming the National Safeguarding Team

5 May press release: Independent audit report of the National Safeguarding Team The first independent audit of the Church of England’s National Safeguarding Team (NST) has been pub...

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