Pope visits pediatric oncology ward, baptizes infant March 31, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis used his third day at Rome’s Gemelli hospital to visit children hospitalized in the oncology ward and to confer the sacrament of baptism on a tiny infant named Miguel Angel.
Additional charges filed in Vatican finance trial March 31, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The Vatican’s prosecuting attorney has leveled additional charges against four of the defendants who have been on trial since July 2021 for their alleged roles in the Vatican’s failed investment in a property in London.
Lasting peace can exist only without weapons, pope says March 31, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, Vatican, World News A culture of nonviolence will become more widespread when countries and citizens resort less and less to the use of weapons, Pope Francis said.
U.S. Catholic bishops call on faithful to pray for Pope Francis’ recovery during hospitalization March 30, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, Vatican, World News After the Vatican said Pope Francis was hospitalized for a pulmonary infection March 29, Catholic bishops in the United States called on the faithful to pray for the Holy Father’s recovery.
Responding to Indigenous, Vatican disavows ‘doctrine of discovery’ March 30, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The Catholic Church formally “repudiates those concepts that fail to recognize the inherent human rights of Indigenous peoples, including what has become known as the legal and political ‘doctrine of discovery,'” a Vatican statement said.
Pope ‘steadily improving’ from respiratory infection, Vatican says March 30, 2023By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News After spending the night in the hospital, Pope Francis is “steadily improving” from a respiratory infection and continuing his planned course of treatment, the Vatican press office said.
Don’t treat Jesus as an idea, invite him into your heart, pope says March 29, 2023By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Like St. Paul, Christians must not only know Jesus with their heads but invite him into their hearts through a personal encounter with Christ, Pope Francis said.
Pope hospitalized for respiratory infection, Vatican says March 29, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis went to Rome’s Gemelli hospital March 29 for “some previously planned tests,” the Vatican press office said, providing no further details.
Nashville shooting was ‘senseless act of violence,’ pope says in telegram March 29, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis called the deadly shooting at a school in Nashville a “senseless act of violence” and prayed that the grieving families hold strong to their faith and “bring good out of unspeakable evil.”
Pope Francis prays for migrants killed in ‘tragic’ fire near U.S.-Mexico border March 29, 2023By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis prayed for the victims of a “tragic” fire that killed at least 38 people and injured some 29 others at a migrant processing center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, March 27.
Confession is ‘encounter of love’ that fights evil, pope tells priests March 26, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments In a world where “there is no shortage of hotbeds of hatred and revenge,” Pope Francis told priests and seminarians that “we confessors must multiply the ‘hotbeds of mercy,'” by making it easy for people to access the sacrament of reconciliation.
Pope, World Council of Churches’ leaders talk about war, divisions March 24, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Recognizing how war and political differences can increase Christian divisions, believers must keep their focus on Christ and his Gospel, said members of a delegation of the World Council of Churches that met with Pope Francis.
