Synod seeks to expand consultations on women’s ministry, diaconate October 9, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Synodality, Vatican, World News The Vatican group studying the question of women’s ministry, including the ordination of women to the diaconate, will expand its consultative phase to include women who do not serve as consultors to the dicastery in charge of the study group, synod officials announced.
Pope to welcome Ukrainian president back to Vatican October 9, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Pope Francis will welcome Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy back to the Vatican Oct. 11, four months after their last meeting, the Vatican press office announced.
Holy Spirit can help Christians be ‘artisans’ of unity, pope says October 9, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Most people claim they want unity, but usually they mean they want others to unite around their own point of view, which gives rise to conflict, Pope Francis said.
Cardinal-designate says God, and the pope, work in mysterious ways October 9, 2024By Adam Wesselinoff OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News God works in mysterious ways, but the Holy Father is even more mysterious, Cardinal-designate Mykola Bychok, eparch of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Australia and Oceania, told The Catholic Weekly on the day of his appointment.
Some new cardinals-designate from ‘peripheries’ were already in Rome October 8, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Almost half of the 21 cardinals-to-be Pope Francis recently announced were already in Rome attending the Synod of Bishops on synodality, but that didn’t necessarily mean they all heard the news when it happened.
Holy Spirit’s gifts can guide the work of law, homilist says at annual Red Mass October 8, 2024By Maureen Boyle OSV News Filed Under: News, Supreme Court, World News, Worship & Sacraments Just as the nation’s founders relied on God’s providence, so too must all those serving in the U.S. legal profession and government today depend on the gifts of the Holy Spirit, said the homilist during the 72nd annual Red Mass Oct. 6 at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington.
Statistically speaking: How pope’s choices change College of Cardinals October 8, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News With one current member of the College of Cardinals — Venezuelan Cardinal Baltazar Porras Cardozo of Caracas — about to celebrate his 80th birthday, when the new cardinals are inducted into the college in December, there could be as many as 141 “cardinal electors.”
Evangelize with simplicity, prayer, dialogue, service, pope tells Jesuits October 8, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Evangelization, News, Vatican, World News Evangelization does not have to be complicated or “sophisticated,” even in highly secularized places, Pope Francis told Jesuits living in Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
Georgia Supreme Court reinstates six-week abortion ban October 8, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News The Georgia Supreme Court temporarily reinstated Oct. 7 the state’s six-week abortion ban while it reviews an appeal of a previous lower court ruling that had struck down the law.
Hot-button issues raised by Vatican synod called ‘a mechanism’ to understand synodal method October 8, 2024By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, World News The goal of the second and final meeting of the Synod on Synodality underway at the Vatican is understanding and exercising synodality in the church, rather than immediately resolving specific issues, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ synodality expert said.
Short-lived strike puts focus on how dockworkers’ labor keeps economy, supply chain rolling October 7, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, World News ILA members load and unload cargo from vessels in ports, harbors, and docks, while the USMX represents ocean cargo carriers and terminal operators.
As church prepares for Jubilee, ‘Holy Land is bleeding,’ Palestine ambassador says October 7, 2024By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News Without a ceasefire, the upcoming Jubilee year in Rome will be marred by the suffering and bloodshed in the Holy Land, Palestine’s ambassador to the Holy See said. In an interview with OSV News Sept. 27, Ambassador Issa Kassissieh said that he hopes that “the war will be behind us” by the time Pope Francis […]
