International Women’s Day: Celebrations in synod season explore hopes March 7, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News International Women’s Day has long been an occasion for women and men connected to the Vatican to gather to discuss the role of women in the church and society.
Bishop near Rome decrees alleged Marian apparitions ‘not supernatural’ March 6, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Since 2016, Gisella Cardia has claimed to be seeing visions of the Virgin Mary in the central Italian town of Trevignano Romano, some 30 miles north of Rome, after bringing a statue of Mary with her from a trip to Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, which she said began to shed tears.
Pope, still recovering from illness, urges the prideful not to judge March 6, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis urged prideful people to recall one of Jesus’ moral commandments to “never judge.”
‘Why, Lord?’ is appropriate prayer for grieving parents, pope says March 5, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Crying out to God and demanding answers when one’s child dies is anything but a sign of a lack of faith, Pope Francis told a group of grieving Italian parents.
Pope calls for cease-fire in Gaza; calls disarmament ‘moral duty’ March 4, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis repeated his call for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and said the international community has a “moral duty” to pursue disarmament worldwide.
Relationship with God should be intimate, not transactional, pope says March 4, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Just as Jesus drove out merchants from the temple in Jerusalem, Christians should cleanse themselves from a transactional relationship with God by developing an intimacy with him like that of a family in their home, Pope Francis said.
Pope asks children to make the world better, one little step at a time March 4, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Youth Ministry Making the world a better place for everyone starts with prayer and little steps like saying hello, sorry or thank you, Pope Francis said in a letter to the world’s children.
Courage needed to seek truth, levy sanctions, pope tells Vatican judges March 4, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The Holy Spirit sparks the inner outrage and courage needed to confront injustice and unacceptable situations, and to try to change them, Pope Francis said.
Prayerful listening combats clericalism, promotes synodality, speakers say March 3, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News The first assembly of the synod on synodality demonstrated that an effective way to break the chains of clericalism and highlight the voices and experience of women in the church is to begin by listening and praying together before discussing issues, said two synod participants.
Eliminating differences with gender ideology is terrible danger, pope says March 1, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News The gifts of men and women are “fruitful” together, and to erase the difference between men and women “is to erase humanity,” Pope Francis said.
Jesus accepts a person’s fragility so they can accept others, pope says March 1, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Disabilities Ministry, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Jesus did not teach his disciples to organize agencies and structures to help vulnerable people, but gave the example of encountering them, listening to them and helping them as individuals and not “categories” of people in need, Pope Francis said.
Papal preacher warns of rise in overly academic theology March 1, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Western theology risks becoming an abstract and rationalized conversation among academics rather than a tool for nourishing the faith of God’s people, the papal preacher said.
