Popes and presidents: Biden is 14th U.S. president to visit Vatican October 27, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Almost 60 years have passed since a Catholic president of the United States visited a pope at the Vatican.
Pope calls for an end to forcing migrants back to unsafe countries October 25, 2021By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis denounced the “inhuman violence” waged against migrants, refugees and other displaced peoples in Libya, and called for an end to sending people back to unsafe countries.
Global community is obligated to address Haiti’s plight, says U.N. nuncio October 21, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News As Haitians seek to rebuild their country, “it is imperative that the international community take a shared and concrete interest in their plight,” the Vatican’s U.N. nuncio said during an informal meeting of the Security Council on Haiti’s dire situation.
Retired Pope Benedict hints at his death in condolence message October 20, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Retired Pope Benedict XVI has hinted at his death in a condolence message for a former colleague who was a professor in Regensburg, Germany.
Catholic social teaching gives Gospel concrete form, pope says October 19, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, Vatican, World News Pope Francis said he knows “it often annoys people” when he promotes Catholic teaching on social issues like poverty, migration and ecology, but he is going to keep doing so because the Gospel demands it.
Pope to pharmacists: Do not become accessories to homicide of abortion October 18, 2021By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News All health care professionals have a right to conscientious objection, just as they have a right to denounce unjust harm inflicted on innocent and defenseless life, Pope Francis said.
Saintly popes: People question whether canonizing popes is a good idea October 15, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News With the news that Pope John Paul I would soon be beatified, Twitter and other social media were filled — again — with the question: Has being pope become a shortcut to canonization?
President Biden and Pope Francis scheduled to meet Oct. 29 October 14, 2021By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will have an audience with Pope Francis Oct. 29, the day before the G20 Leaders’ Summit starts in Rome, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced Oct. 14.
Recognizing miracle, pope clears way for beatification of John Paul I October 13, 2021By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News Pope Francis has signed a decree recognizing a miracle attributed to the intercession of Pope John Paul I, clearing the way for his beatification.
By listening to Holy Spirit, synod can be process of healing, pope says October 11, 2021By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News A synod calls on everyone to become experts in “the art of encounter” in a way that is uplifting and transformative, Pope Francis said, formally opening the process leading up to the assembly of the Synod of Bishops in 2023.
U.S. nuncio says he’ll stay, helps prepare for synod, Biden-pope meeting October 11, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the 75-year-old apostolic nuncio to the United States, said when he met Pope Francis at the Vatican Sept. 6, the pope asked him to remain in his post instead of retiring.
Pope warns that synod could be ‘elitist’ exercise unless all have a voice October 9, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News While a Synod of Bishops is not a parliament and its preparatory process is not “an opinion poll,” Pope Francis insisted that involving as many people as possible in the process and prayerfully listening to all of them is the only way to recognize the call of the Holy Spirit.
