Pope: Politicians must save, not squander, assets for future generations April 3, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News A nation’s welfare and social service systems are a reminder that everything is connected, and everyone is interdependent on each other, especially the younger and older generations, Pope Francis said.
Pope says be close to those ‘abandoned’ like Christ: unborn, migrants April 3, 2023By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, Lent, News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News The unborn, migrants, the elderly and the disabled are “living icons” of Jesus that call Christians to draw close to those who feel abandoned just as Christ did on the cross, Pope Francis said.
Fraternity as a pro-life issue: Academy publishes theological reflections April 2, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News If “liberty, equality and fraternity” are essential for human thriving, as has been generally accepted in the West since the Enlightenment, then the last element needs as much attention as the first two, including in Catholic theology, said leaders of the Pontifical Academy for Life.
As pope leaves hospital, he comforts couple, jokes with reporters April 1, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The 86-year-old pope, who had been hospitalized since March 29 for treatment of bronchitis, stopped his car and got out to greet well-wishers and reporters waiting outside the hospital.
Doctors say pope can be discharged from hospital March 31, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis enjoyed a pizza “party” with staff on his second night at Rome’s Gemelli hospital and was expected to be released from the hospital April 1, the Vatican press office said.
Pope visits pediatric oncology ward, baptizes infant March 31, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis used his third day at Rome’s Gemelli hospital to visit children hospitalized in the oncology ward and to confer the sacrament of baptism on a tiny infant named Miguel Angel.
Additional charges filed in Vatican finance trial March 31, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The Vatican’s prosecuting attorney has leveled additional charges against four of the defendants who have been on trial since July 2021 for their alleged roles in the Vatican’s failed investment in a property in London.
Lasting peace can exist only without weapons, pope says March 31, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, Vatican, World News A culture of nonviolence will become more widespread when countries and citizens resort less and less to the use of weapons, Pope Francis said.
U.S. Catholic bishops call on faithful to pray for Pope Francis’ recovery during hospitalization March 30, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, Vatican, World News After the Vatican said Pope Francis was hospitalized for a pulmonary infection March 29, Catholic bishops in the United States called on the faithful to pray for the Holy Father’s recovery.
Responding to Indigenous, Vatican disavows ‘doctrine of discovery’ March 30, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The Catholic Church formally “repudiates those concepts that fail to recognize the inherent human rights of Indigenous peoples, including what has become known as the legal and political ‘doctrine of discovery,'” a Vatican statement said.
Pope ‘steadily improving’ from respiratory infection, Vatican says March 30, 2023By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News After spending the night in the hospital, Pope Francis is “steadily improving” from a respiratory infection and continuing his planned course of treatment, the Vatican press office said.
Don’t treat Jesus as an idea, invite him into your heart, pope says March 29, 2023By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Like St. Paul, Christians must not only know Jesus with their heads but invite him into their hearts through a personal encounter with Christ, Pope Francis said.
