The flag of Vatican City with St. Peter’s Basilica in the background. Credit: Bohumil Petrik/CNA. Pope Francis issued a new law Monday reorganizing Vatican finances …
Pope Francis urges all families to look to Jesus, Mary, and Joseph for ‘sure inspiration’
Pope Francis delivers his Angelus address in the library of the Apostolic Palace Dec. 27, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media. Pope Francis urged families across the …
Pope Francis to mark fifth anniversary of ‘Amoris laetitia’ with year dedicated to family
Pope Francis gives an address in the library of the Apostolic Palace. Credit: Vatican Media Pope Francis announced Sunday a special year dedicated to the …
Pope Francis: Be a witness to Christ in your ordinary life
Pope Francis in the library of the Vatican’s apostolic palace Nov. 18, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media. Be a witness to Jesus Christ in the way …
Pope Francis calls for ‘vaccines for all’ as he gives Christmas Urbi et Orbi blessing
Pope Francis gives his Christmas ‘Urbi et Orbi’ blessing Dec. 25, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media. Giving his traditional Christmas “Urbi et Orbi” blessing today, Pope …
Pope Francis on Christmas Eve: The poor manger was rich in love
Pope Francis offers Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica Dec. 24, 2020. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/Vatican Pool. On Christmas Eve, Pope Francis said that the poverty of …
Pope Francis pens Christmas letter to ‘beloved people of Lebanon
Pope Francis holds the flag of Lebanon and prays during his general audience on Sept. 2, 2020. Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA. Pope Francis has written a …
St. Joseph the Worker was once out of work, too
Credit: Immaculate/Shutterstock. With mass unemployment still high as the coronavirus pandemic drags on, Catholics can look to St. Joseph as a special intercessor, two priests …
Exiled Belarusian archbishop will be allowed to return for Christmas
Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of Minsk-Mohilev prays outside the Akrestsin Street pre-trial detention center in Minsk, Aug. 19, 2020. Credit: Catholic.by. Belarusian authorities announced Tuesday that …
First known nativity scene figurines can now be seen in St. Mary Major Basilica
Nativity scene commissioned by Pope Nicholas IV in 1292. Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA. The first known nativity scene figurines are on display this Christmas in one …
Pope Francis: ‘Christmas is the feast of love incarnate’
Pope Francis at his general audience address in the library of the Apostolic Palace Dec. 16, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media. Pope Francis said this moring …
‘Follow me:’ How John Paul II and Benedict XVI led a Catholic back to the faith
Angelo Ciappelloni. Courtesy photo. “Follow me.” Angelo Ciappelloni heard those words while he stood in Rome’s Piazza del Popolo on April 8, 2005. With hundreds …
How one Croatian cardinal saved thousands of Jewish lives
Cardinal Stepinac. public domain. When Esther Gitman proposed a topic for a Fulbright Fellowship, the administrator taking proposals was incredulous. In her 50s at the …
Sacred music album recorded on eve of coronavirus lockdown storms Christmas charts
The Schola Cantorum of the London Oratory School singing at the Carmel Mission in California during the Carmel Bach Festival 2019. Credit: Anita Morrison. When …
2020 – Midnight Mass from Clifton Cathedral
Bishop Lang celebrating Mass. Image Source: CBCEW The traditional Christmas Eve celebration of Midnight Mass comes live from the Cathedral of St Peter and St …
Vatican says COVID-19 vaccines ‘morally acceptable’ when no alternatives are available
Shutterstock. The Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith stated today that it is “morally acceptable” to receive COVID-19 vaccines produced using cell lines from …
Why Christians believe in resurrection, not reincarnation
Resurrection of the Flesh, fresco by Luca Signorelli in the San Brizio chapel of Orvieto Cathedral (1499-1502). Every time Christians recite the Apostles’ Creed, they …
Pope Francis urges Roman Curia to confront the ‘ecclesial crisis’
Pope Francis speaks to the Roman Curia Dec. 21, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media. Pope Francis urged the Roman Curia Monday not to view the Church …
U.S. Cardinal Dolan urges remembrance of persecuted Christians at Christmas
Refugee children at the Sharia Al Haman Hope Refugee Camp in Duhok, Iraq, March 28, 2015. Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA. U.S. Catholic leaders have challenged the …
Chesterton fans fundraising to create Father Brown mystery game
Credit: Andrey_Kuzmin / Shutterstock. A group of Catholic board game enthusiasts has launched a new Kickstarter campaign to create a game based on the Father …