Synod discussions include addressing pain church has caused people October 16, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News The synodal way is not an invention of Pope Francis, but it is based on Jesus’ way of inclusivity and listening, and on divine revelation itself, said Redemptorist Father Vimal Tirimanna, a leading moral theologian from Sri Lanka.
Church embraces, cares for those seeking ‘home,’ safety, pope says October 16, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News The Catholic Church is open and maternal to everyone, especially migrants, seeking a home and safe harbor, Pope Francis said.
Despite prejudices, many Catholics helped rescue Jews in Nazi-occupied Italy October 15, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Generosity and compassion for those fleeing persecution prevailed over racial laws and centuries-old anti-Semitic prejudices in Nazi-occupied Italy, some Jewish and Catholic historians said at an international conference.
Study, not blame or shame, needed with pope’s wartime record, scholar says October 14, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Vatican, World News The era of divisive debate about Pope Pius XII has been left behind, and now Catholics and Jews, historians and theologians must take up serious and collaborative study, said the co-organizer of a major conference looking at the early results of new research into the wartime pontificate.
War defeats human dignity, avoids finding solution, Vatican cardinal says October 10, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Terrorism, violence, barbarism and extremism undermine the legitimate aspirations of Palestinians and Israelis, said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state.
In book given at synod, Pope warns against idolatry camouflaged as sacred October 6, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News Christian life is a battle each person must fight against the temptation to be self-sufficient and against a paganism disguised as sacredness, Pope Francis said in an introduction to a small book distributed to participants at the synod on synodality.
Pope, in document on climate crisis, criticizes science ‘deniers’ October 4, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, Vatican, World News After warning the world against ignoring the cries of the earth and the poor with his 2015 encyclical, “Laudato Si’, On Care for Our Common Home,” Pope Francis intensified his critique with “Laudate Deum” (“Praise God”), warning against the selfish obsession with human power and the “irresponsible derision” of the reality of climate change.
Bishops must promote communion, unity with pope, new U.S. cardinal says October 2, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Every bishop in the world has made a promise to live and work in communion with the pope, a promise that includes obedience, said new U.S. Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, the first of 20 cardinals to receive his red hat from Pope Francis at a consistory Sept. 30.
New cardinals have great hopes for synod on synodality September 30, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News – Many of the prelates Pope Francis will make cardinals Sept. 30 will be taking part in the synod on synodality or have been very active in its preparatory phases as leaders of their dioceses.
Papal commission asks synod make safeguarding a bigger priority September 28, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, Synodality, World News The synod on synodality should dedicate substantial discussion to addressing sexual abuse in the church and include the voices of survivors, the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors said.
Hope must be restored in communities, young people, pope says September 27, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Hope and fraternity must be kept alive, organized and coordinated into concrete action so every crisis can be read as an opportunity and dealt with positively, Pope Francis said.
Message in Marseille: Welcoming the ‘stranger’ is a global mandate September 26, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News In a visit of under 30 hours to Marseille, France, Pope Francis highlighted his key appeals and positions concerning migration and the mandate for people of faith to care for the “stranger” in one’s land.
