Faith, hope, love are antidote to pride, pope says at audience April 24, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News While the virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance are the marks of a righteous individual, the virtues of faith, hope and love emphasize a connection to other people fueled by belief in God and reliance on prayer, Pope Francis said.
Pope tells seminarians to integrate spiritual, intellectual lives April 23, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, Vocations, World News Candidates to the priesthood must integrate their spiritual, intellectual and community lives so they become pastors who can respond to the needs of their communities, Pope Francis said.
Historians’ work should lead to dialogue, truth, pope says April 23, 2024By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Historians serve the common good when they seek historical truth and not an ideological interpretation of events, Pope Francis said.
Build church unity, favor reconciliation, pope tells pilgrims April 22, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Pope Pius VII, a prisoner of Napoleon from 1809 to 1814, endured humiliation but successfully resisted all attempts to fracture the unity of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis said.
Jesus laid down his life out of love for each person, pope says April 22, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News When Jesus called himself the “good shepherd,” he was telling people not only that he was their guide, but that they were important to him and “that he thinks of each of us as the love of his life,” Pope Francis said.
Pope’s representative to U.S. warns of ‘auto-referential’ church April 22, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The Catholic Church in the United States is grappling with a tendency to become more “auto-referential” and withdraw itself from the international stage and universal church, Pope Francis’ representative to the United States said.
Faith and peace meet in papal diplomacy, archbishop says April 22, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The pope’s diplomats are men of faith located all over the world to uphold the pope’s positions on international matters, to edify the universal church and to serve the Gospel, said Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, the Vatican foreign minister.
Pope urges brothers working with youth to bring them hope April 22, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Be loving and compassionate fathers to the marginalized, Pope Francis told members of the Brothers of Christian Instruction, commonly known as the La Mennais Brothers.
Experts at Rome conference delve into historical abuses of power April 21, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Experts in history, philosophy, sociology, political science, psychology and education came together at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University April 17-19 to present talks including: the effects of mass violence waged by colonial powers; the misuse of the memory of the Holocaust; sexual predation in the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages; and slave holding by Jesuits in the the United States.
Seek contact with nature to change polluting lifestyles, pope says April 20, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Respecting and loving the earth as well as seeking direct contact with nature “are values that we need so much today as we discover ourselves increasingly powerless before the consequences of irresponsible and short-sighted exploitation of the planet,” he told members of the Italian Catholic Movement of Adult Scouts.
A better world can’t be built ‘lying on the couch,’ pope tells children April 19, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Peace can spread and grow from “small seeds” like including someone who is left out of an activity, showing concern for someone who is struggling, picking up some litter and praying for God’s help, Pope Francis told Italian schoolchildren.
Pope offers prayers for prisoners of war and victims of torture April 17, 2024By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Pope Francis appealed to countries at war to release prisoners and offered special prayers for those who have endured torture.
