Popes and presidents: Biden is 14th U.S. president to visit Vatican October 27, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Almost 60 years have passed since a Catholic president of the United States visited a pope at the Vatican.
Bishops must teach truth, but avoid partisan politics, Archbishop Lori says October 25, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, Local News, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2021, Video In discussing and voting on a document on the Eucharist during their meeting Nov. 15-18, he said, the tone should be pastoral, “not compromising our teaching, not denying that it is possible to exclude oneself from the table of the Lord,” but laying the foundation for the bishops’ multiyear project of helping Catholics better understand, appreciate and celebrate the sacrament.
Catholic social teaching gives Gospel concrete form, pope says October 19, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, Vatican, World News Pope Francis said he knows “it often annoys people” when he promotes Catholic teaching on social issues like poverty, migration and ecology, but he is going to keep doing so because the Gospel demands it.
Saintly popes: People question whether canonizing popes is a good idea October 15, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News With the news that Pope John Paul I would soon be beatified, Twitter and other social media were filled — again — with the question: Has being pope become a shortcut to canonization?
Pope warns that synod could be ‘elitist’ exercise unless all have a voice October 9, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News While a Synod of Bishops is not a parliament and its preparatory process is not “an opinion poll,” Pope Francis insisted that involving as many people as possible in the process and prayerfully listening to all of them is the only way to recognize the call of the Holy Spirit.
Pope meets Pelosi; both speak at legislators’ pre-COP26 meeting October 9, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis met privately at the Vatican Oct. 9 with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was in Rome to speak at a meeting of legislators from around the world in preparation for the U.N. climate summit.
Pope, religious leaders plead for peace, compassion, care for the earth October 8, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Standing in front of Rome’s Colosseum, Pope Francis called on members of all the world’s religions to be courageous enough to set aside self-centeredness and instead live with true and active compassion for the victims of war and poverty and for the earth.
Living the faith in the world: Book explores Pope Francis’ social teaching October 1, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, Vatican, World News The Christian mission of proclaiming the Gospel of salvation and defending the God-given dignity of every human person has led popes over the past 130 years to build a body of theological reflection known as Catholic social teaching or social doctrine.
Pope says Vatican II shaped his theology, including in social teaching September 28, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Social Justice, Vatican, World News Pope Francis said the Second Vatican Council so shaped his theological and pastoral vision that perhaps he has not been as explicit as he should have been in highlighting those ties, especially when it comes to his contributions to Catholic social teaching.
SSPX leader says vaccination can be morally ‘prudent’ September 24, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, World News While denouncing as an “abuse of power” coercive measures to promote vaccination against COVID-19, a leader of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X said getting vaccinated “may sometimes be an eminently prudent act in the moral sense of the term.”
Share God’s love, don’t just lament lack of faith, pope tells bishops September 23, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Bishops and others in the Catholic Church often lament the declining number of Christians, but rarely do they examine their own behavior and failure to show others how much God loves them, Pope Francis told the presidents of European bishops’ conferences.
Appealing to need for unity, pope restores limits on pre-Vatican II Mass July 16, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Divine Worship, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Saying he was acting for the good of the unity of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis has restored limits on the celebration of the Mass according to the Roman Missal in use before the Second Vatican Council, overturning or severely restricting permissions St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI had given to celebrate the so-called Tridentine-rite Mass.
