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Cindy Wooden

Catholic News Service is a leading agency for religious news. Its mission is to report fully, fairly and freely on the involvement of the church in the world today.

Gay couples can be blessed by priest if it isn’t a formal liturgical blessing

December 18, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News

A Catholic priest can bless a gay or other unmarried couple as long as it is not a formal liturgical blessing and does not give the impression that the Catholic Church is blessing the union as if it were a marriage, the Vatican doctrinal office said.

Cardinal Becciu, five others sentenced to prison at Vatican trial

December 18, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News

The Vatican City State criminal court sentenced Cardinal Angelo Becciu to five years and six months in prison on two counts of embezzlement and one of aggravated fraud but found him not guilty of abuse of office or witness tampering.

Celebrating the Incarnation, remember Bethlehem, too, pope says

December 18, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

When St. Francis of Assisi staged the first Nativity scene 800 years ago, he did so to remind people of the powerful, awe-inspiring truth that God became human in Jesus, Pope Francis said.

Prudent use of Vatican finances is essential for mission, pope says

December 13, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News

The Vatican’s financial planning, budgeting, auditing, investing and saving are essential for carrying out the Catholic Church’s mission and must be handled with the highest sense of responsibility and prudence, Pope Francis wrote in a letter to the staff of the Secretariat for the Economy.

Council to ask pope to authorize studies on key synod topics

December 12, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News

The council of the Synod of Bishops will ask Pope Francis to authorize studies on the need to update canon law, revise the rules for priestly formation, deepen a theological reflection on the diaconate — including the possibility of ordaining women deacons — and consider revising a document that provides norms for the relationship of a bishop with members of religious orders in his diocese.

Weeping Mary is sign of her motherly love, pope says

December 11, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Weeping Madonna of Syracuse, a plaster image of Mary hung in the bedroom of a newlywed couple in southern Italy that began shedding tears, Pope Francis said the miraculous sign is a reminder of Mary’s maternal presence and her desire that all people would know the love and peace of her son.

Pope marks 800th anniversary of Nativity scene, asks prayers for Holy Land

December 11, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Advent, Christmas, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Away in a cave near Greccio, Italy, St. Francis of Assisi had the first Nativity scene — a live one — staged for the faithful on Christmas Eve in 1223. A 15th-century fresco now decorating the cave inspired the Nativity scene erected in St. Peter’s Square for the 800th anniversary celebrations.

Nothing is impossible for God, not even peace in Ukraine, pope says

December 8, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News

Pope Francis asked Catholics around the world to join him in entrusting to Mary “the universal desire for peace, especially for the martyred Ukraine, which is suffering so much.”

Pope gives Syro-Malabar Catholics Christmas deadline to end dispute

December 7, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Telling Syro-Malabar Catholics in India’s Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly that he does not want to see anyone excommunicated, Pope Francis pleaded with the priests and faithful to end their dispute over the way the Eucharist is celebrated.

Pope encourages oratories to help form good Catholics, good citizens

December 7, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Youth Ministry

Catholic oratories and youth groups that provide after-school activities, religious education and a place for children and teens to gather should be loud, joyful places that help form good Catholics and good citizens, Pope Francis said.

El Papa sugiere mantener el corazón vigilante en Adviento por medio de la caridad y la confesión

December 4, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
OSV News
Filed Under: En Español

La llamada a la “vigilancia” en Adviento no significa permanecer despiertos y vigilantes por miedo, sino más bien por el anhelo de la venida del Señor, escribió el Papa Francisco.

Fighting in Holy Land, bombing in Philippines prompt prayers from ailing Pope

December 4, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

The end of the temporary cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas “means death, destruction, misery,” Pope Francis said.

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