Russia says Vatican apologized for pope’s remarks about minority fighters December 15, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News The Vatican has had diplomatic contact with Russia regarding comments Pope Francis made about Russian minorities being responsible for the worst acts of cruelty in the country’s war on Ukraine.
Celebrate Christmas ‘with Ukraine in your hearts,’ pope says, urging aid December 14, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Celebrating Christmas is important and beautiful, Pope Francis said, but he asked people to spend less on their celebrations this year and donate the savings to help the people of Ukraine.
Disarmament is the only way to build peaceful future, cardinal says December 13, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Disarmament is the only way to build a peaceful future, said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state. “We need to imagine and build a new concept of peace and international solidarity, remembering that so many countries and peoples are asking to be heard and represented,” he said. “We need courage […]
Nothing is impossible for God, not even peace in Ukraine, pope says December 8, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Pope Francis asked Catholics around the world to join him in entrusting to Mary “the universal desire for peace, especially for the martyred Ukraine, which is suffering so much.”
Ukrainians seek blessing for rehab center; pope urges action for peace December 7, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News The mayor of Lviv, Ukraine, and a team of doctors treating those injured in the war gave Pope Francis a cross with an embedded piece of shrapnel removed from the body of a young girl.
Utah Catholic helps ‘Wrap Ukraine with Quilts’ December 4, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Nadia Molina e is not only praying; she is been putting her talents into action: cutting, sewing and piecing fabric into quilts to help Ukrainian children affected by the war.
Ukrainian government says it will investigate Orthodox linked to Moscow December 2, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News The Ukrainian government said it would sanction members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church affiliated with the Moscow Patriarchate.
Ukrainian American deacon urges prayers for Ukraine in winter months December 2, 2022By Tom Tracy Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Deacon Logusch, a child of Ukrainian immigrants and now retired after a career in chemistry and teaching, told about 40 Ukrainian parishioners gathered at St. Mary’s Assumption Nov. 27 that he hopes the world fully appreciates the long-standing and well-established territorial ambitions of Russian expansionism.
Genocide in Ukraine? November 29, 2022By George Weigel Syndicated Columnist Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference, War in Ukraine Yale historian Timothy Snyder thinks that, measured by the criteria of the Genocide Convention (to which Russia is a party), the Russian war in Ukraine is genocidal.
Ukrainian archdiocese demands release of priests taken by Russian troops November 28, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Father Ivan Levitsky, a hieromonk and rector of the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, and Father Bohdan Geleta, who works at the church, were detained by Russian troops Nov. 16, and the church was illegally searched the following day.
Nine months after Russia began war, pope writes to Ukrainians November 28, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Nine months after Russia launched its war on Ukraine, Pope Francis wrote to the Ukrainian people expressing his admiration for their courage and commitment to their country in the face of so much death and destruction.
Pope remembers victims of Soviet-made famine in Ukraine, prays for peace November 23, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Praying for peace in Ukraine, Pope Francis remembered both the victims of Russia’s current aggression and the millions of victims of a Soviet-engineered famine 90 years ago.
