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.
Pre-Vatican II Mass was formed by ‘clericalization,’ says papal preacher March 24, 2023By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments Clericalization led to the separation of the clergy from the faithful in the church’s liturgy celebrated before the Second Vatican Council, said Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the papal household.
Memorial to modern Christian martyrs opens in Rome March 24, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News The Community of Sant’Egidio, which cares for the basilica and the shrine, hosted an event March 23 to dedicate a new exposition space among the ruins in the crypt as a museum and memorial to the new martyrs of both the 20th and 21st centuries.
Pope advances sainthood causes of six candidates March 24, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News Pope Francis has advanced the sainthood causes of five women and a priest.
Avoid polarizing debate, promote healthy scientific discussion, pope says March 24, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News When presenting its moral teachings on bioethics, the church needs to avoid falling into the “extremist dynamics of polarization” seen in media debates, Pope Francis said.
