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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.

Prayer is a mission to bring hurting world to God, pope says

March 14, 2022
By 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, 2022
By 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, 2022
By 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, 2022
By 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, 2022
By 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, 2022
By 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, 2022
By 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, 2022
By 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, 2022
By 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, 2022
By 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.

Vatican projects budget deficit for 2022 as pandemic continues

January 28, 2022
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Presenting a budget projection that foresees a deficit of $37.1 million in 2022, the prefect of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy said he believes the Vatican is on the path to honesty and transparency in financial matters.

Pope sets Jan. 26 as day of prayer for peace in Ukraine

January 24, 2022
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Saying he was worried about Ukraine and how a possible Russian-Ukrainian conflict could spread, Pope Francis proclaimed Jan. 26 as a day of prayer for peace in Ukraine.

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