Pope injures arm in a fall, wears sling at audiences January 16, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis was wearing his arm in a sling during his meetings and audiences Jan. 16 after hurting his right arm in a fall.
Pope gives bonus to employees with three or more children January 16, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Marriage & Family Life, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis personally decided that employees of Vatican City State who have three or more children will receive a monthly bonus, the Vatican announced.
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity to focus on Creed January 15, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Vatican, World News As Christian churches prepare to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity will focus on affirming the Nicene Creed and its expression of the faith Christians share.
Holy Year pilgrimage is chance to begin again, pope says January 14, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News A holy year is an opportunity to start fresh with one’s relationship with God and with other people, Pope Francis told thousands of pilgrims.
Pope looks back on his life, urges people to look to future with hope January 14, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Books, Feature, News, Vatican, World News While calling himself an “old man” and saying he never expected to be pope this long, Pope Francis said he still has dreams for the future.
Italian bishops say don’t automatically exclude gay men from seminary January 13, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, Vocations, World News The Italian bishops’ new program of priestly formation, approved by the Vatican, repeats a prohibition against admitting to the seminary men with “deep-seated homosexual tendencies,” but also says that being gay does not automatically exclude a candidate.
U.S. sister killed in the Amazon honored at Rome ‘new martyrs’ shrine January 13, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News “It’s quite an honor for her to be here with the likes of St. Oscar Romero,” Tom Stang said after a relic of his sister was placed on an altar in Rome alongside a relic of the martyred archbishop from El Salvador.
Pope offers prayers for those impacted by L.A. wildfires January 13, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Disaster Relief, News, Vatican, World News “I am praying for all of you,” Pope Francis said, using his televised Sunday Angelus address to speak directly to the people impacted by the wildfires in Southern California.
Pope to diplomats: Sweep away ‘clouds of war,’ let ‘winds of peace’ blow January 9, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News During the Holy Year 2025, the international community should strive “to overcome the logic of confrontation and embrace instead the logic of encounter,” Pope Francis told ambassadors and other diplomats accredited to the Holy See.
Grow in hope, share it with others, cardinals says as he opens Holy Door January 6, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News During the Holy Year 2025, Catholics are called not only to grow in the virtue of hope, but also to share it with others, said U.S. Cardinal James M. Harvey, archpriest of Rome’s Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls.
Pope names Consolata Missionary as the first woman dicastery prefect January 6, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, Vocations, World News Pope Francis has appointed Consolata Missionary Sister Simona Brambilla to be the first woman to lead a Vatican dicastery, naming her prefect of the Dicastery for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life.
Migrants, refugees, victims of war have a right to education, pope says January 2, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis has asked Catholics around the world to pray with him in January that migrants, refugees and victims of war will have a chance for an education.
