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 …
Cardinal Schönborn deplores attack on rabbi in Vienna
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn at the Vatican April 8, 2016. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Cardinal Christoph Schönborn deplored Friday an attack on a rabbi in the Austrian …
Vatican dicastery urges youngsters to share wisdom of elderly people facing Christmas alone
A detail from a graphic promoting the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life campaign. Credit: Vatican Media. A Vatican dicastery launched a new campaign Friday …
Pro-life student in midwife program receives apology and payout
Julia Rynkiewicz, a student at the University of Nottingham in the UK Credit: ADF International. A pro-life undergraduate student in a midwife program has received an …
Bishop John Sherrington invites Catholics to respond to the Government Consultation on Faith Engagement
Image Source: CBCEW The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has called for individual Catholics to respond to an open consultation on the …
Cardinal Vincent Nichols’ concern regarding overseas aid reduction
Image Source: CBCEW Cardinal Nichols wrote to all MPs expressing his concerns about UK spending cuts on overseas aid. In his letter calls on all …
Vatican diplomat: Lockdowns revealed ‘glaring contradiction’ in attitudes towards migrants
A detail from Timothy P. Schmalz’s sculpture, ‘Angels Unawares.’ Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Coronavirus lockdowns revealed a “glaring contradiction” in attitudes towards migrants, a Vatican diplomat …
Catholic bishops appeal for ‘peaceful solution’ to crisis in Belarus
Protesters in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, Sept. 13, 2020. Credit: Homoatrox/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). The Catholic bishops of Belarus appealed Wednesday for a …
‘We had no idea’: The hidden life of the reputed stigmatist tortured by Stalin’s secret police
Sr. Wanda Boniszewska (1907-2003). Credit: episkopat.pl. Sr. Wanda Boniszewska led an extraordinary life. The Polish nun was a reputed stigmatist tortured by Stalin’s secret police. …
Swiss Catholic diocese reportedly rejects Pope Francis’ candidates for new bishop
Chur Cathedral in Switzerland. Credit: Adrian Michael (CC BY-SA 3.0). A Swiss Catholic diocese that elects its own bishop from a shortlist drawn up by …
Twitter criticized as ‘Burn the clergy’ hashtag trends in Spain
Credit: Twin Design via Shutterstock. On the same day that Pope Francis approved the beatification of 127 Catholics killed in Spain in hatred of the …
French bishops press government to review 30-person Mass limit
A medical mask on a gargoyle of Notre-Dame in Paris. Credit: Viacheslav Lopatin via Shutterstock. After a strong reaction by French Catholics to the government’s …