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Vatican: Without alternatives, current COVID-19 vaccines are morally acceptable

December 21, 2020
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

The Vatican’s doctrinal office said that when alternative vaccines are not available, it is morally acceptable to receive COVID-19 vaccines developed or tested using cell lines originating from aborted fetuses.

Christmas is sign of God’s preferential love for the poor, cardinal says

December 18, 2020
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Reaching out to and helping the poor “is to imitate God; it is to make oneself small out of love in order to raise up the other,” the preacher of the papal household told Pope Francis, officials of the Roman Curia and Vatican employees.

Netflix to release series illustrating pope’s call for ‘alliance’ of young, old

December 17, 2020
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Netflix has announced that in 2021 it will release a documentary series based on “Sharing the Wisdom of Time,” a book in which Pope Francis called for creating “an alliance between the young and old people” by sharing their stories.

After shipwreck, bishops denounce treatment of Venezuelan refugees

December 15, 2020
By Junno Arocho Esteves
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News

After a boat carrying refugees was allegedly denied entry into Trinidad and Tobago and subsequently shipwrecked, Venezuelan bishops said the treatment of migrants fleeing the country constitutes a serious human rights violation.

Cause opens for Louisiana priests who sacrificed their lives in 1873 epidemic

December 10, 2020
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News

The sacrifice of five Catholic priests who gave their lives ministering to people in Shreveport during the 1873 yellow fever epidemic is memorialized in stained glass at Holy Trinity Church in downtown.

Pope proclaims year dedicated to St. Joseph

December 8, 2020
By Junno Arocho Esteves
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Year of St. Joseph

Marking the 150th anniversary of St. Joseph being declared patron of the universal church, Pope Francis proclaimed a yearlong celebration dedicated to the foster father of Jesus.

Cardinal Piacenza upholds ‘probable invalidity’ of confession by phone

December 8, 2020
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Divine Worship, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Even though the world is facing a pandemic that may limit many people’s ability to celebrate the sacraments, particularly those people who are in isolation, quarantining or hospitalized with COVID-19, confession by phone is still most likely invalid, said Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary.

Pope plans to visit Iraq in March

December 7, 2020
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Pope Francis in Iraq, Vatican, World News

Barring any obstacles caused by the global pandemic, Pope Francis is set to begin international travel again in 2021 by visiting Iraq in March, which would make him the first pope to visit this nation.

U.S. gives grant to Catholic groups helping poor cope with pandemic

December 3, 2020
By Junno Arocho Esteves
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

The U.S. government’s foreign aid agency awarded thousands of dollars in assistance to two Rome-based Catholic organizations assisting the poor in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.

Zairean rite offers example for developing an Amazonian rite, pope says

December 1, 2020
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News

The approval decades ago of a Zairean rite of the Roman Missal demonstrated that it is possible also to develop a rite for the Amazon region, Pope Francis said in a preface to a new book.

Pope appoints Washington Auxiliary Bishop Fisher, Baltimore native, to head Buffalo Diocese

December 1, 2020
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Born in Baltimore and raised across the street from Memorial Stadium, Bishop Fisher was baptized at St. Anthony of Padua, Baltimore, and later attended the Church of the Annunciation, Rosedale.

At Mass with new cardinals, pope warns against worldliness

November 30, 2020
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2020 Consistory, Advent, Christmas, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Concelebrating Mass with newly created cardinals, Pope Francis said Advent is a time to be vigilant, hopeful and helpful.

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