Evangelize with simplicity, prayer, dialogue, service, pope tells Jesuits October 8, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Evangelization, News, Vatican, World News Evangelization does not have to be complicated or “sophisticated,” even in highly secularized places, Pope Francis told Jesuits living in Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
Powerful impose war on others, world shows indifference, pope says October 7, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Vatican, World News On the one-year anniversary of the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, Pope Francis expressed his solidarity with all those suffering because of conflicts throughout the Middle East, urged Christians to be peacemakers and warned warmongers they will face God’s judgment.
Synod members vote to dialogue with study groups set up by pope October 7, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Synodality, Vatican, World News Members of the Synod of Bishops have voted to give up one of their few free afternoons to “dialogue” with the leaders of the study groups Pope Francis set up to reflect on important questions raised by the synod in 2023.
In second week, synod to discuss authority in the church October 7, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Synodality, Vatican, World News Members of the Synod of Bishops have begun looking for ways to make relationships within the Catholic Church “more transparent and more harmonious, so that our witness may become more credible.”
As wider war threatens Middle East, pope asks Mary to intercede October 7, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, World News As fighting in the Middle East intensified and spread, Pope Francis turned to Mary, begging her to “intercede for our world in danger.”
Love is beautiful when lived generously, pope says at Angelus October 7, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Marriage & Family Life, News, Vatican, World News Love is demanding, but it is also beautiful when a woman and a man love each other fully, “without half measures,” Pope Francis said.
Pope announces he will create 21 new cardinals in December October 6, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis announced he would create 21 new cardinals Dec. 8, including a 99-year-old former nuncio and the 44-year-old Ukrainian bishop who heads his church’s eparchy in Melbourne, Australia.
Synodality, an antidote to polarization, helps mission, cardinal says October 4, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Synodality, Vatican, World News At the end of a multiyear process of listening, praying, discussing and discerning, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, said he hopes the Synod of Bishops can give Catholics four practical suggestions for being a more “synodal” church.
Synod stresses global approach to role of women, doctrinal development October 4, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, Vocations, World News Controversy over women’s ordination, even at the synod, detracts attention from the plight of women in the Catholic Church and society, said an Australian bishop, who is a member of the Synod of Bishops.
Pope moves to make Rome a ‘living church,’ not a ‘museum’ October 4, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The Diocese of Rome, like the Rome city government, has put so much effort into ensuring services in the historic center of the city that it often neglects the growing suburbs where most people live, Pope Francis said.
Diaconate is ‘surrender’ to Jesus, U.S. archbishop says at ordination Mass October 3, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: deacons, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News Before the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s Basilica, a symbol of the Catholic Church’s unity behind the successor of St. Peter, 15 men laid prostrate to express their humility and take vows of chastity and obedience to their bishop.
Vatican doctrinal chief tells synod it’s not time for women deacons October 3, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: deacons, Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News “Rushing” to open the diaconate to women in the Catholic Church would short-circuit a necessary reflection on the relationship between ordained ministry and charismatic leadership, particularly as it impacts the participation of women in the church, said the head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office.
