Healing by helping: Welcoming refugees builds community, speakers say September 28, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News After celebrating the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Catholic organizations and movements, Vatican officials and government representatives met at two conferences to explore very practical ways to assist migrants and refugees, integrate them into their new communities and combat negative stereotypes.
Pope encourages young Catholics to use ‘creative courage’ to evangelize September 26, 2022By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, News, Vatican, World News The Shalom Catholic Community, founded in Brazil in 1982, offers members an opportunity to take part in “a community and missionary life in order to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all men and women, especially to those far from Christ and the church,” its website said.
Seek silence amid noisy world, pope tells Capuchin sisters September 26, 2022By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The humility of silence can help Christians sift through the loud and divisive noise in the world in order to listen to and discern God’s will, Pope Francis told a group of Capuchin sisters.
Jesus, present in the Eucharist, inspires compassion, sharing, pope says September 26, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, Vatican, World News One cannot love and worship the Eucharist without compassion for the poor and marginalized, Pope Francis said at a Mass concluding Italy’s eucharistic congress.
Welcome, support, accompany all migrants, pope says September 26, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News Marking the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Pope Francis called on everyone to work together to build a more inclusive and fraternal future.
Science needs to have peace be its goal, Pontifical Academy of Sciences says September 26, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Condemning all atrocities against civilians and crimes against humanity, members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences called for accountability and independent investigations into suspected war crimes in the world’s current conflicts.
Padre Pio showed the world that ‘God is real,’ Cardinal O’Malley says September 24, 2022By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News St. Pio of Pietrelcina did not boast of his fame or holiness but instead showed that God “chooses the weak to confuse the strong,” said Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley of Boston.
Cardinal Parolin, Russian foreign minister meet at U.N. September 23, 2022By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Vatican News reported.
Prayers, support needed for those with Alzheimer’s disease, pope says September 21, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Seniors, Vatican, World News Marking World Alzheimer’s Day Sept. 21, Pope Francis asked people to pray for all those affected by the illness, including families and caregivers.
Pope praises Kazakhstan’s support of nuclear weapons ban, peace September 21, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News During his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square Sept. 21, the pope reflected on his trip to Kazakhstan Sept. 13-15 to support the small Catholic minority there and to attend the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions.
Pope calls for increased assistance to those hit by Hurricane Fiona September 21, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News As Hurricane Fiona swept across the Caribbean, leaving behind numerous victims and material destruction, Pope Francis called for greater solidarity in assisting all those affected.
Synthesis report complete, but bishop finds synodal path is just beginning September 20, 2022By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Synodality, Vatican, World News While the report summarizing tens of thousands of U.S. listening sessions in the first phase of the Catholic Church’s synodal process has been submitted to the Vatican, the experience of synodality is just beginning.