Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne. Credit: www.ewtn.de. A German cardinal issued a stark warning Saturday about his country’s controversial “Synodal Way.” In an address …
Pope Francis appoints extra prosecutor to Vatican City court
Pope Francis greets pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square on Feb. 26, 2020. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Pope Francis today named an Italian lawyer and professor of …
How the pandemic has changed the fight against human trafficking
by Fr Mark Ehichioya Odion MSP, Bishop Patrick Lynch SSCC The UN Special Rapporteurs on migration and trafficking in persons issued a statement warning that …
Cardinal Pell to return to Rome this week
Cardinal George Pell. Alan Holdren/CNA Cardinal George Pell is set to return to Rome on Tuesday, his first time back in the Vatican since 2017, …
Pope Francis: The path to holiness requires spiritual combat
Pope Francis greets pilgrims at his Angelus address Aug. 30, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media/CNA. Pope Francis said today that the Christian life requires concrete commitments …
Carlo Acutis beatification will be a 17-day celebration in Assisi
Carlo Acutis. Credit: carloacutis.com. Tomb photo credit: Alexey Gotovsky/EWTN. Assisi is celebrating the beatification of computer programming teen Carlo Acutis in October with more than …
Russia seeks to bar foreign-educated religious leaders from teaching, preaching
The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Moscow. Credit: Sergey Ilyin-Mikhalski via Wikimedia (public domain). Catholic leaders in Russia are expressing concern about a bill …
NI health department warns of risks of unregulated at-home medical abortion
Credit: Prostock-studio/Shutterstock. Northern Ireland’s Department of Health told a Belfast daily yesterday that women who self-administer medical abortions at home are at risk. Home administration …
In UN message, Pope Francis decries abortion and family breakdown
Pope Francis records a video message delivered to the United Nations Sept. 25, 2020. Screengrab: Holy See UN. Pope Francis told the United Nations yesterday …
Archbishop leads BBC Radio 4 Daily Service with Scripture focus
We’re delighted to announce that ‘The God who Speaks‘ will be the theme of BBC Radio 4’s Daily Service between 28 September – 9 October. …
Analysis: The Becciu resignation, a beginning not an end
Cardinal Angelo Becciu. Credit: Credit: Claude Truong-Ngoc / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) At around 6pm on Thursday, Pope Francis summoned Cardinal Angelo Becciu to …
New details emerge about Cardinal Becciu’s management of Vatican finances
The then Archbishop Angelo Becciu blesses the Pilgrimage Information Center for the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy on Dec. 1, 2015. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Following his …
Cardinal Becciu defends actions, welcomes chance to ‘explain’
Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, center, in 2015. Credit: Alan Holdren/CNA. The day after he was forced to resign from his Vatican job and to give …
Vatican Cardinal Angelo Becciu resigns from office and ‘rights’ of cardinals
Giovanni Angelo Becciu, former prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, pictured June 27, 2019. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Cardinal Angelo Becciu, who until …
Discussing the challenges faced by refugees and migrants
To mark the Catholic Church’s celebration of the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales have recorded a discussion …
Catholic Bishops in England and Wales statement on the development of a COVID-19 vaccination
The Bishops’ Conference Department for Social Justice has released a statement on the development of a vaccine against COVID-19. It addresses ethical matters surrounding the development and …
Catholic Bishops in England and Wales welcome the release of Samaritanus bonus
The Holy See’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has issued a new letter, Samaritanus bonus, The Good Samaritan, on the care for persons in …
Pope Francis: Subsidiarity means everyone has a role in healing society
Pope Francis at his general audience in the San Damaso courtyard at the Vatican, Sept. 23, 2020. Photo credits: Pablo Esparza/EWTN News. Pope Francis said …
Pope Francis blesses bell that will ring out in defence of unborn
Pope Francis blesses the bell in the San Damaso courtyard at the Vatican, Sept. 23, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media. Pope Francis blessed a large bell …
The medieval carpentry techniques used in Notre Dame cathedral rebuild
Credit: Carpenters without Borders. After fire toppled the iconic spire and destroyed the roof of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France in April 2009, …