Image Source: CBCEW The Catholic Archdiocese of Cardiff is one of just 100 UK charities – including seven in Wales – to be awarded £100,000 …
Pope Francis: Inculturated Mass shows us the gifts of the Holy Spirit
Pope Francis celebrates Mass according to the Zaire Use at St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 1, 2019. Credit; Vatican Media. Pope Francis said yesterday that …
Exiled Catholic archbishop to hold virtual Advent retreat for flock
Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of Minsk-Mohilev, pictured in 2014. Credit: Redaktor01 Remik Kubicki (CC BY 3.0). Exiled Belarusian Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz will lead his flock in …
Catholic diocese prays for the dead and injured after car plows into pedestrians in Trier
A German police officer in front of a crowd. Credit: Heiko Barth/Shutterstock. A Catholic diocese said yesterday that it was praying for the dead and …
No public Masses until January for Belgian Catholics
Source: CNA elgium’s Catholic bishops called Tuesday for dialogue with the government after it decreed that public Masses would remain suspended until 15 January 2021. …
Pope Francis: Be God’s people, not God’s elite
Pope Francis records a video message for judges released Nov. 30, 2020. Screenshot from Vatican News YouTube channel. Catholics are called to be God’s people, …
Bishop Swarbrick offers Advent prayers for victims of violence in Ethiopia’s Tigray Province
Image Source: CBCEW As the people of Ethiopia’s Tigray region continue to suffer at the heart of a violent conflict, with hundreds dead and thousands …
French Catholic bishops win appeal against 30-person Mass limit
The Palais-Royal in Paris, home of the Council of State. Credit: Olive Titus (CC PDM 1.0). The French Council of State has ruled that a …
Immaculate Conception: Pope Francis cancels traditional act of veneration due to pandemic
Pope Francis visits Rome’s Piazza di Spagna to venerate the statue of the Immaculate Conception overlooking the Spanish Steps on Dec. 8, 2019. Credit: Daniel …
Pell surprised by ‘Technicolor criminality’ of Vatican financial scandals
Cardinal George Pell in the Vatican, 2012. Credit: Matthew Rarey/CNA Cardinal George Pell has spoken of his surprise at the apparent extent of “criminality” involved …
Pope Francis tells Orthodox leader: I am confident we will achieve full unity
Pope Francis with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople outside the Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli Oct. 20, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media. Pope Francis …
Pope Francis asks for prayer for Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region
Pope Francis at the Wednesday general audience Nov. 11, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media/CNA. Pope Francis has asked people to pray for Ethiopia’s Tigray region, where …
Swiss court orders full access to records for Vatican financial investigation
St. Peters Basilica in Vatican City. Credit: Madrugada Verde/Shutterstock Vatican investigators have been granted full access to Swiss banking documentation related to long-time Vatican investment …
Pope Francis: ‘Advent is the season for remembering the closeness of God’
Pope Francis offers Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica Dec. 1, 2019. Credit: Vatican Media/CNA. On the first Sunday of Advent, Pope Francis recommended a traditional …
Pope Francis to new cardinals: May the cross and resurrection always be your goal
Pope Francis greets Cardinal Enrico Feroci Nov. 28, 2020. Credit: EWTN-CNA Photo/Daniel Ibáñez/Vatican. Pope Francis created 13 new cardinals today, urging them to remain vigilant …
French bishops launch second legal appeal to reinstate public Masses for all
Archbishop Michel Aupetit, pictured in 2015 at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Credit: Olivier LPB/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0. The French bishops’ conference announced Friday that …
The woman who lived for 60 years on the Eucharist alone
Credit: Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). Servant of God Floripes de Jesús, better known as Lola, was a Brazilian laywoman who lived on the Eucharist alone …
Catholic archbishop: Pray for priest kidnapped in Nigeria
Fr. Matthew Dajo, who was kidnapped Nov. 22 in Nigeria’s Abuja archdiocese. Public Domain A Nigerian archbishop has asked for prayers for the safe release …
Beautiful film shows life of a ‘Priest’
Priest is a beautifully shot film chronicling life in the Bradford parish of ‘Mary, Mother of God’ in non-pandemic times from the beginning of Lent to …
Weekly Newsletter 28th November 2020 (46)
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