ANALYSIS: There will be more than 450 participants at the October gathering; here are some to keep your eye on.

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SCRIPTURES & ART: A look at the readings for the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, through the eyes of 18th-century painter Christian Dietrich

In his Angelus message, Pope Francis reflected on Jesus’ parable in the Gospel of Matthew about a landowner who gives all of his laborers the full daily wage, even those who were employed late in the day and worked only one hour.

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SCRIPTURES & ART: A look at the readings for the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, through the eyes of 18th-century painter Christian Dietrich

Father Luc de Bellescize, former secretary of Archbishop Michel Aupetit of Paris, says the choice of some clergymen to embrace worldliness to the detriment of divine Revelation has already provoked a form of schism in the Church.

Archbishop Mario Delpini of Milan has alarmed some observers with the approach he set forth in a new pastoral document, released shortly before the start of the global Synod on Synodality.