As pope leaves hospital, he comforts couple, jokes with reporters April 1, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The 86-year-old pope, who had been hospitalized since March 29 for treatment of bronchitis, stopped his car and got out to greet well-wishers and reporters waiting outside the hospital.
Additional charges filed in Vatican finance trial March 31, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The Vatican’s prosecuting attorney has leveled additional charges against four of the defendants who have been on trial since July 2021 for their alleged roles in the Vatican’s failed investment in a property in London.
Responding to Indigenous, Vatican disavows ‘doctrine of discovery’ March 30, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The Catholic Church formally “repudiates those concepts that fail to recognize the inherent human rights of Indigenous peoples, including what has become known as the legal and political ‘doctrine of discovery,'” a Vatican statement said.
Pope hospitalized for respiratory infection, Vatican says March 29, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis went to Rome’s Gemelli hospital March 29 for “some previously planned tests,” the Vatican press office said, providing no further details.
Confession is ‘encounter of love’ that fights evil, pope tells priests March 26, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments In a world where “there is no shortage of hotbeds of hatred and revenge,” Pope Francis told priests and seminarians that “we confessors must multiply the ‘hotbeds of mercy,'” by making it easy for people to access the sacrament of reconciliation.
Memorial to modern Christian martyrs opens in Rome March 24, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News The Community of Sant’Egidio, which cares for the basilica and the shrine, hosted an event March 23 to dedicate a new exposition space among the ruins in the crypt as a museum and memorial to the new martyrs of both the 20th and 21st centuries.
Pope calls European bishops to be prophetic voices for peace March 23, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News While promoting dialogue and building relationships with leaders of the European Union contribute to peace, bishops in EU countries also must be prophetic in denouncing war and encouraging all possible efforts to restore peace, Pope Francis said.
Confession, indulgences express and strengthen communion, speakers say March 22, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments The Catholic Church’s ministry of granting absolution for sins and indulgences to remove the punishments those sins deserve is a ministry that builds communion, said speakers at a Vatican course.
Good politics brings people together, generates care for others, pope says March 20, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Meeting participants at the Vatican March 18, Pope Francis told them to “wage war, but another kind of war, an inner one, a war on ourselves to work for peace.”
Accept God’s love, share it with others, pope tells Josephites March 17, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The secret to lovingly ministering to others is first allowing oneself to experience the overwhelming love of God, Pope Francis told priests belonging to the Josephites of Murialdo, the Murialdine Sisters of St. Joseph and the laypeople who work with them.
La vigilia del Sínodo será expresión del “ecumenismo solidario”, dice reverenda March 17, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: En Español Planificar una vigilia ecuménica de oración para el Sínodo de los Obispos de la Iglesia Católica y comprometerse a participar en ella es una expresión de “ecumenismo solidario”, dijo la Reverenda Anne-Laure Danet, responsable ecuménica de la Federación Protestante Francesa.
Commission focuses on ensuring synod will be prayerful experience March 17, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News At the end of their first meeting, three members of the preparatory commission for the assembly of the Synod of Bishops said they know some Catholics have very high expectations for the process while others have intense anxiety.
