From on high: A rare glimpse from the top of St. Peter’s baldachin October 10, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Knights of Columbus, News, Vatican, World News More than two dozen popes have celebrated Mass under the giant canopy that rises over the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica, but the impressive view from the top of 100-foot-tall bronze structure has been reserved for a select few: cleaners, contractors and restoration experts.
Pope sends $67,000 to Gaza parish, with $35,000 raised in one day from synod delegates October 9, 2024By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News As the Holy Land marked a grim first anniversary Oct. 7 of the Hamas attack on southern Israeli communities and subsequent Israel-Hamas war that has devastated the Gaza Strip, the papal almoner raised $35,000 in one afternoon from delegates to the Synod on Synodality and immediately sent it to Holy Family Parish in Gaza City.
Synod seeks to expand consultations on women’s ministry, diaconate October 9, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Synodality, Vatican, World News The Vatican group studying the question of women’s ministry, including the ordination of women to the diaconate, will expand its consultative phase to include women who do not serve as consultors to the dicastery in charge of the study group, synod officials announced.
Holy Spirit can help Christians be ‘artisans’ of unity, pope says October 9, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Most people claim they want unity, but usually they mean they want others to unite around their own point of view, which gives rise to conflict, Pope Francis said.
Cardinal-designate says God, and the pope, work in mysterious ways October 9, 2024By Adam Wesselinoff OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News God works in mysterious ways, but the Holy Father is even more mysterious, Cardinal-designate Mykola Bychok, eparch of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Australia and Oceania, told The Catholic Weekly on the day of his appointment.
Some new cardinals-designate from ‘peripheries’ were already in Rome October 8, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Almost half of the 21 cardinals-to-be Pope Francis recently announced were already in Rome attending the Synod of Bishops on synodality, but that didn’t necessarily mean they all heard the news when it happened.
Statistically speaking: How pope’s choices change College of Cardinals October 8, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News With one current member of the College of Cardinals — Venezuelan Cardinal Baltazar Porras Cardozo of Caracas — about to celebrate his 80th birthday, when the new cardinals are inducted into the college in December, there could be as many as 141 “cardinal electors.”
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.”
