The coronavirus crisis has shown that governments need to invest more in health care and employ more nurses, Pope Francis said Tuesday. In a message …
Pope Francis: God’s peace gives hope, not ‘anesthesia’ against hard times
Pope Francis celebrates morning Mass at the Casa Santa Marta May 12, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media. The world offers peace like it is something to …
‘We’ve never known anything like this’ – Helping people mourn during coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic has upended social life, politics and the economy. It may also transform the nature of grieving, an expert on the mourning process …
Vatican Museums to reopen with temperature checks, mandatory face masks
A view of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel. Credit: Bohumil Petrik/CNA. The Vatican Museums are preparing to reopen by reservation only with new health measures to …
Pope Francis prays for the unemployed after coronavirus layoffs
Pope Francis offers Mass in Casa Santa Marta on May 11, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media/CNA. Pope Francis began his morning Mass today by praying for …
Pope Francis: ‘The Church advances through prayer’
Pope Francis celebrates Mass in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta May 10, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media. Church leaders must put prayer before all …
Vigano accuses Cardinal Sarah of causing him ‘harm’ in row over coronavirus letter
Archbishop Carlo Vigano. Credit: Edward Pentin/National Catholic Register Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has accused a Vatican cardinal of causing him “serious harm” in a bitter …
Pope Francis: the devil seeks to destroy the Church through envy
Pope Francis celebrates Mass in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta May 9, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media. The devil uses envy to try to …
Catholic teen seeks to inspire neighbourhood with Marian sidewalk art
Photo courtesy of the Diocese of Fargo. A young Catholic artist has drawn an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary on her parents’ driveway bringing …
‘Dial-a-Mass’ service is a godsend for Catholics without internet
Bishop Terence Drainey of Middlesbrough. Credit: catholicrelics.co.uk A new “dial-a-Mass” service enabling Catholics with no internet connection to listen to Sunday Masses is proving a …
St. John Paul II’s parents’ sainthood cause has officially opened
St. John Paul II’s father, Karol Wojtyła, and mother, Emilia, with their eldest son, Edmund. Credit: Archidiecezja Krakowska. The sainthood causes of St. John Paul …
Pope Francis: ‘Allow yourself to be consoled by Jesus’
Pope Francis celebrates Mass in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta May 8, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media. We must learn to let ourselves be …
Pope Francis: ‘Pass down the history of our salvation’
Pope Francis celebrates Mass in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta May 7, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media. It is important for Catholics to remember …
Italian teen who died in 2009 declared ‘venerable’ by Pope Francis
Matteo Farina (1990-2009). Credit: Matteofarina.com Pope Francis Wednesday advanced the sainthood causes of five men and women, including an Italian teenager who died of a …
Pope Francis: ‘Jesus saves us from the darkness’
Pope Francis celebrates morning Mass at the Casa Santa Marta May 6, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media. Pope Francis said yesterday that Christ’s light illuminates the …
Swiss Guards postpone swearing-in of new recruits due to coronavirus
Swiss Guards at the commemoration of the fallen with conferment in the Protomartyrs’ Square in Vatican City, May 6, 2015. Credit: Bohumil Petrik/CNA. The annual …
Pope Francis speaks up for ‘harshly exploited’ agricultural workers
Pope Francis gives his general audience address in the apostolic palace May 6, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media. The coronavirus crisis can be an opportunity to …
Scottish pro-life student group investigated, but no action taken
The University of Aberdeen. Credit: SilvanBachmann/Shutterstock. After complaints that a pro-life event held by the Aberdeen Life Ethics Society violated a ‘safe space policy’, an …
Pandemic brings ‘a very different kind of Church’ to London’s homeless
Adoration takes place outside St. Patrick’s, Soho, in London’s West End. Courtesy: St. Patrick’s, Soho. A parish in London’s West End is offering the homeless …
Pope Francis hails St. John Paul II’s ‘great witness’ ahead of centenary
Pope Francis said that he has looked up to St. John Paul II throughout his priesthood in a book foreword he wrote ahead of the …