Pope urges liturgical experts to avoid ‘unnecessary pomp’ in Mass February 28, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments Liturgical leaders in the church must serve as humble guides to prayer rather than be strictly focused on the application of rules, Pope Francis said.
Although pope is improving, he will not lead Ash Wednesday services February 28, 2025By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News While Pope Francis’ condition has continued to improve, the Vatican announced that he will not lead his traditional Ash Wednesday services in Rome March 5.
Pew: Pope Francis ‘broadly popular’ among US Catholics throughout his papacy February 28, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis, now hospitalized with severe respiratory issues, has been “broadly popular among the nation’s Catholics throughout his tenure,” according to multiple surveys conducted by Pew Research over the past 12 years.
Pope continues to improve, is doing respiratory therapy February 27, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis’ clinical condition continued to improve Feb. 27, the Vatican said, and he had respiratory physiotherapy in the morning and the afternoon.
Pope gives Sister Petrini two assistants for running Vatican City February 27, 2025By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The office governing Vatican City State was set to have a new president March 1 and, while in the hospital, Pope Francis changed the office’s statutes to give the new president two top-level assistants.
Even from hospital, pope gives powerful witness of faith, prelates say February 26, 2025By Carol Glatz OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Despite his illness, age and hospitalization, Pope Francis is still demonstrating his deep faith and exercising his role as pontiff, said a cardinal who once served as an auxiliary bishop of Rome. “The pope offers profound meaning to human suffering — that same suffering that he himself has always flagged as […]
Pope’s condition shows ‘further slight improvement’ February 26, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis’ condition showed “further slight improvement” in the previous 24 hours, the Vatican said in its evening medical bulletin Feb. 26.
Pope establishes commission to boost donations to the Holy See February 26, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News To support the service of the Apostolic See and considering the current economic situation,” Pope Francis established a permanent Vatican commission dedicated to boosting donations to the Holy See through targeted campaigns.
For those who embrace Christ’s love, death is not the end, pope writes February 26, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News For those who recognize Christ as the savior, death is not an end or a form of “annihilation,” Pope Francis wrote in his general audience catechesis. It is a kind of “sister” that introduces the faithful departed to true life.
Pope moves Kansas-born military chaplain closer to sainthood February 25, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Saints, Vatican, World News Pope Francis has advanced the sainthood cause of Father Emil J. Kapaun, a U.S. Army chaplain who gave his life ministering to fellow soldiers in a North Korean prison camp.
Like his predecessors, pope wrote resignation letter in case of impairment February 25, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Even after Pope Francis’ doctors said he was showing slight signs of improvement and the Vatican reported that he had met in the hospital with top aides to do some work, questions persisted about the possibility of his resignation.
Pope continues to be in ‘critical,’ but ‘stable’ condition February 25, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News In a sign affirming that Pope Francis has been able to conduct work while in the hospital, the Vatican said the pope had met with the top officials of the Vatican Secretariat of State and had signed several decrees in sainthood causes.
