Pope prays for unity of church as he celebrates anniversary of Vatican II October 11, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The Second Vatican Council was the universal Catholic Church’s response to God’s love and to Jesus’ command to feed his sheep, Pope Francis said, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the council’s opening.
Dream of ‘synodality’ is a fruit of Vatican II, cardinal writes October 11, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News While the term “synodality” is not found in any of the 16 documents of the Second Vatican Council, the council’s vision and definition of the church is at the heart of what synodality is, said Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary-general of the Synod of Bishops.
Creating jobs is key to ‘inclusive’ development, pope says October 10, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, Vatican, World News The best way to ensure that economic growth benefits everyone is to create jobs, especially for those who struggle most, Pope Francis said.
Refusal to help migrants is ‘sinful, criminal,’ pope says at canonization October 10, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Saints, Vatican, World News The refusal to help desperate migrants “is revolting, it’s sinful, it’s criminal,” Pope Francis said as he canonized a bishop dedicated to assisting migrants and a Salesian brother who had immigrated with his family to Argentina.
Pope appoints new cardinals as members of dicasteries October 7, 2022By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis appointed several recently created cardinals to be members of the dicasteries of the Roman Curia, the Vatican announced.
Thailand day care massacre an act of ‘unspeakable violence,’ pope says October 7, 2022By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis said he was “deeply saddened” after hearing the news of one of the world’s worst mass shootings at a day care center in northeast Thailand.
True discernment requires knowing oneself, pope says October 5, 2022By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News During his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square Oct. 5, the pope said that knowing oneself requires “patient soul-searching” and the awareness of one’s “way of acting, of the feelings that dwell within us.”
Swiss cardinal apologizes for Nazi reference in critique of Synodal Path October 5, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News In a meeting with the president of the German bishops’ conference, Swiss Cardinal Kurt Koch apologized for offending people and said he never intended to imply that supporters of the German church’s Synodal Path were doing something similar to what a group of Christian supporters of the Nazis did in the 1930s.
Vatican marks ecology saint’s feast day with film premiere, climate accords October 4, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News The Vatican hosted the global premiere of a new documentary on the urgent need to address climate change on the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the same day the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 2015 Paris Agreement entered into force for the Holy See.
Pope encourages Oblates to continue serving the poor October 4, 2022By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The Gospel’s message of hope to the suffering and downtrodden is sorely needed in today’s world, which is “enslaved by selfishness and full of contradictions and divisions,” Pope Francis said.
Pope to canonize founder of Scalabrinians, Salesian pharmacist October 4, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News While their life journeys and the stages of their sainthood causes diverged, two men born in Italy are set to be canonized together Oct. 9: Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini and Blessed Artemide Zatti.
Missionaries of hope have hearts renewed by Holy Spirit, pope says October 4, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News True missionaries of hope allow the Holy Spirit into their hearts and lives, Pope Francis told members of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, known as the Redemptorists.
