Historians’ work should lead to dialogue, truth, pope says April 23, 2024By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Historians serve the common good when they seek historical truth and not an ideological interpretation of events, Pope Francis said.
Pope offers prayers for prisoners of war and victims of torture April 17, 2024By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Pope Francis appealed to countries at war to release prisoners and offered special prayers for those who have endured torture.
Vatican announces theme for World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly February 19, 2024By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Seniors, Vatican, World News Pope Francis has chosen a line from Psalm 71 — “Do not cast me off in my old age” — as the theme for the 2024 celebration of the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly.
Man featured in famous photo with pope dies at 58 January 11, 2024By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Vincenzo Riva, a man with neurofibromatosis, whose photograph with Pope Francis was seen around the world a decade ago, died in Vicenza, Italy, Jan. 10 at the age of 58.
Released from hospital, Bishop O’Connell greets pope January 10, 2024By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The day after being released from Rome’s Santo Spirito Hospital, Bishop David M. O’Connell of Trenton, N.J., had a heart-to-heart moment with Pope Francis.
Vatican publishes list of upcoming papal liturgies January 9, 2024By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News As soon as the liturgies of the Christmas season ended, the Vatican published the calendar of public liturgies Pope Francis will preside over in January and February.
Pope, Ukrainian president speak by phone December 29, 2023By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News For at least the fourth time since Russia began its large-scale attack on Ukraine in February 2022, Pope Francis and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke by telephone Dec. 28.
Pope offers condolences to mourners at Indi Gregory’s funeral December 1, 2023By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Obituaries, Respect Life, Vatican, World News Pope Francis offered condolences to the parents of Indi Gregory and to the mourners at the funeral of “this precious child of God.”
Pope says he has serious bronchial infection November 30, 2023By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News At the brief meeting with participants in a seminar on the ethics of health care management, the pope said he was suffering from a “bronchial condition. Thank God it was not pneumonia,” but he said it was a very serious bronchial infection.
Vatican publishes schedule of papal Christmas liturgies November 28, 2023By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, Vatican, World News As Vatican workers continued to decorate the Christmas tree in St. Peter’s Square and to erect a platform for the Nativity scene, the office of papal liturgical ceremonies published the list of holiday Masses and prayer services Pope Francis would celebrate.
‘La pobreza es un escándalo’, dice el Papa, y los cristianos deben destinar sus dones a la caridad November 20, 2023By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: En Español Las pobrezas materiales, culturales y espirituales que existen en el mundo son un “escándalo” que los cristianos están llamados a afrontar, poniendo en acción la capacidad de caridad y amor que Dios les ha dado, dijo el Papa Francisco.
‘Poverty is a scandal,’ pope says; Christians must use gifts for charity November 20, 2023By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, Vatican, World News The material, cultural and spiritual poverties that exist in the world are a “scandal” that Christians are called to address by putting their God-given capacity for charity and love into action, Pope Francis said.
