Pope promulgates Curia reform, emphasizing church’s missionary nature March 20, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Nine years after taking office, Pope Francis promulgated his constitution reforming the Roman Curia, a project he began with his international College of Cardinals shortly after taking office in 2013.
Papa Francisco sobre Ucrania: ‘Detengan esta matanza’ March 15, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: En Español El papa Francisco una vez más pidió fin a la guerra en Ucrania y dijo que aquellos que invocan a Dios para promover o justificar la violencia “profanan su nombre”.
Prayer is a mission to bring hurting world to God, pope says March 14, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News The call to prayer is an “active mission,” one that does not take a believer from the world but prompts the believer to bring to God the pain and concerns of the world — including the war in Ukraine, Pope Francis said.
Pope Francis on Ukraine: ‘Stop this massacre’ March 14, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Appealing again for an end to the war in Ukraine, Pope Francis said those who invoke God to promote or justify violence “profane his name.”
Pope says ‘rivers of blood’ flowing in Ukraine; Vatican ready to help March 7, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Pope Francis said the Vatican “is ready to do everything to put itself at the service of peace” in Ukraine.
‘With a heart broken,’ pope prays for peace in Ukraine February 27, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Pope Francis said his heart was “broken” by the war in Ukraine, and he pleaded again, “Silence the weapons!”
Pope visits Russian Embassy to express concern over war February 26, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News As Russia continued its assault on Ukraine and Russian troops pressed toward the capital, Kyiv, Pope Francis left the Vatican Feb. 25 to pay a visit to the Russian ambassador to the Holy See.
Celibacy not ‘divine law’ for priests, but promotes holiness, speakers say February 22, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The requirement that most priests in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church be celibate has theological and spiritual foundations and not only practical motivations, said speakers at an international conference on priesthood.
Pope decries warmongering, prays for Eastern Catholics in danger February 18, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Meeting leaders of the Eastern Catholic churches — many from countries at war, facing the threat of war or dealing with the destruction left by war — Pope Francis said human beings seem to be “attached to wars, and this is tragic.”
Ukraine chaplain sees his mission as helping troops protect their humanity February 15, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News For Jesuit Father Andriy Zelinskyy and the soldiers he ministers to in Ukraine, the threat of a war with Russia isn’t news; “the war started eight years ago,” he said.
Forgiveness, friendship, prayer: Pope answers questions on Italian TV February 7, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis told an Italian interviewer that forgiveness is “a human right.”
Pope talks about devotion to saints, prays for man who interrupted prayer February 2, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Uncategorized, Vatican, World News Pope Francis recited a prayer he said he has recited every day for more than 40 years. But while he was reading it, a man in the back of the audience hall began shouting, including about wearing masks. Vatican police escorted him out of the building.
