Pope Francis’ upcoming visit to Hungary will attempt to focus on common goals of the pope and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán regarding the challenges facing the world, especially the war in Ukraine.

In a series of changes to the upcoming Synod of Bishops on Synodality announced Wednesday (April 26), Pope Francis cleared the way for lay women and men to participate as voting members.

The proclamation that Christ is 'truly risen' is a reminder that 'our hope is not an illusion, but the truth,' the pope said.

The Vatican clarified that it was not COVID-19 but it would ‘require several days of appropriate medical treatment at the hospital.’

Testifying at a Vatican trial, Venezuelan Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra compared the events leading to the failed London property deal with Jesus’ agonizing march toward crucifixion.

Cardinal Angelo Becciu pleaded with the pope to confirm that the pontiff had endorsed an investment of church funds into a London real estate property that is at the heart of the Vatican’s blockbuster corruption trial.

In Thursday’s session of the Catholic Church’s corruption trial, the president of the Vatican Bank said he had no choice but to report what he knew about the London real-estate deal at the heart of the inquiry.

The warning seemed aimed at the German bishops' approach to the Synodal Path.