Vatican Christmas stamps celebrate Holy Year opening November 1, 2024By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News With the Holy Year 2025 beginning on Christmas Eve, the Vatican’s 2024 Christmas stamps feature the Jubilee message of hope as well as a prayer for peace.
Vatican opens information point for pilgrims visiting St. Peter’s October 31, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Approximately 40,000 visitors enter St. Peter’s Basilica each day, and now they can gain deeper insights into what they are seeing inside the world’s largest church.
Pope to Catholic educators: Stay resilient despite secularization October 31, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Schools, Vatican, World News Young people need “big-hearted educators” to guide them through the complexities of modernity, Pope Francis told leaders in Catholic education.
Pope urges prayers for parents who have lost a child October 31, 2024By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News When a child dies, there is not much anyone can say to the mother or father, Pope Francis said, but Catholics must pray for them and be close to them.
Pope asks Vatican media to reduce spending as they share the Gospel October 31, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Journalism, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis told members and staff of the Dicastery for Communication that the Vatican and the Catholic Church need their expertise to share the Gospel, but he also asked them to find creative ways to do it while cutting their expenses.
Pope: Make sure confirmation is not last time parish sees young people October 30, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments, Youth Ministry The Catholic Church must put more effort into ensuring that the sacrament of confirmation is not the “sacrament of goodbye” for young people, who receive it and then do not come to church again until they want to get married, Pope Francis said.
Papal commission releases report highlighting progress in safeguarding October 29, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Highlighting progress made in safeguarding and recommendations for rectifying ongoing gaps, the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors dedicated its first annual report to all victims and survivors of sexual abuse by members of the Catholic Church.
Polish priest accused of financial misappropriation released on bail October 29, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Father Michal Olszewski, priest of the Polish branch of the Priests of the Sacred Heart, was released from his detention center on bail Oct. 25 after the order paid $90,000.
Cardinal Martino, former Vatican envoy to U.N. dies at 91 October 28, 2024By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Obituaries, Vatican, World News Cardinal Renato Martino, the former Vatican observer at the United Nations and former president of the pontifical councils for justice and peace and for migrants and travelers, died Oct. 28 at the age of 91.
By seeking better life, migrants teach hope, determination, pope says October 28, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News Migrants demonstrate what hope is, and the Catholic Church must support them to keep that hope alive, Pope Francis said.
Pope to open Holy Door at Rome prison at beginning of Jubilee 2025 October 28, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Two days after opening the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica to inaugurate the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis will travel to a Rome prison to open a Holy Door as a “tangible sign of the message of hope” for people in prisons around the world, the Vatican announced.
Sacred Heart encyclical hailed as a ‘simple and powerful cure’ to rekindle love October 28, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments Pope Francis’ new encyclical on the Sacred Heart of Jesus is being hailed as “a simple and powerful cure” for a fractured world, said the president of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ conference — and that sentiment was echoed by other experts on devotion to the Sacred Heart.
