Cardinal Pell’s faith, suffering remembered at Vatican funeral January 16, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Obituaries, Vatican, World News The death of Australian Cardinal George Pell was a shock because just five days earlier he had concelebrated the funeral of Pope Benedict XVI and “seemed in good health,” said Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals.
U.S. religious liberty expert ‘disappointed’ in Vatican-China deal January 13, 2023By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Vatican, World News The United States’ chief advocate for religious freedom expressed his “disappointment” in the Vatican over its provisional agreement with China on the appointment of bishops in the country.
Papal condemnations of nuclear war ‘indispensable,’ says U.N. official January 13, 2023By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Pope Francis’ condemnations of the threat of nuclear war are “indispensable,” said the head of the U.N. nuclear energy agency.
Read the Gospel, always show people God’s love, pope tells police January 12, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News To understand the Gospel, its beauty and its power, people need to read it, Pope Francis said.
Evangelization is the ‘oxygen’ of Christian life, pope says January 11, 2023By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Beginning a new series of catechesis focused on evangelization and apostolic zeal, the pope said that when Christian life loses its aim of proclaiming the Gospel, it becomes “self-referential” and “atrophied.”
Cardinal Pell dies at 81; he kept the faith even amid tribulation, pope says January 11, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Obituaries, Vatican, World News Pope Francis praised the late Australian Cardinal George Pell as a faithful servant of God and of the Catholic Church, who steadfastly followed the Lord even “in the hour of trial” when he was jailed for sexual abuse before his conviction was overturned by Australia’s highest court.
Vatican prosecutor opens investigation into Orlandi disappearance January 10, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews, News, Vatican, World News The disappearance 40 years ago of Emanuela Orlandi has haunted her family, fueled conspiracy theories and provided grist for a recent Netflix series.
Artificial intelligence must not hurt the most vulnerable, pope says January 10, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis criticized the use of artificial intelligence in ways that negatively affect the most vulnerable, specifically those seeking asylum.
Church’s mission is seen in care for the sick, pope says in message January 10, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, Vatican, World News The way individual Catholics and their parishes care for the sick offers a precise measure of just how much they either are part of or are fighting the “throwaway culture” that ignores or discards anyone seen as flawed or weak, Pope Francis said in his message for the World Day of the Sick.
In a turn of history, Poland is country that will miss German pope the most January 9, 2023By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, World News Hundreds of Polish priests dropped everything and came to Rome to pay tribute to the pope emeritus.
Peace requires a ‘defense of life,’ pope tells ambassadors January 9, 2023By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News “Peace requires before all else the defense of life,” which is threatened by the “alleged ‘right to abortion,'” Pope Francis told ambassadors accredited to the Holy See.
Pope baptizes babies, urges parents to teach them to pray January 9, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments – Telling parents and godparents to teach their little ones to pray from the time they are small, Pope Francis baptized 13 babies in the Sistine Chapel as their older brothers and sisters looked on — or got away and ran around.
