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.
Uvalde’s long road to recovery from mass shooting may offer some insights for Nashville community March 30, 2023By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, Social Justice, World News The violence of school shootings “is perhaps one of the greatest forms of injustice that we routinely witness in our country. Lives are taken, hearts are broken and innocence is shattered all for nothing,” Catholic Extension said.
West Virginia governor signs funding bill for pregnancy help centers March 30, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Republican West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice March 29 signed into law a measure supporters say will help mothers both during and after pregnancy.
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.
Pope hospitalized for respiratory infection, Vatican says March 29, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis went to Rome’s Gemelli hospital March 29 for “some previously planned tests,” the Vatican press office said, providing no further details.
Nashville shooting was ‘senseless act of violence,’ pope says in telegram March 29, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis called the deadly shooting at a school in Nashville a “senseless act of violence” and prayed that the grieving families hold strong to their faith and “bring good out of unspeakable evil.”
Pope Francis prays for migrants killed in ‘tragic’ fire near U.S.-Mexico border March 29, 2023By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis prayed for the victims of a “tragic” fire that killed at least 38 people and injured some 29 others at a migrant processing center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, March 27.
Catholic leaders express sorrow, outrage over dozens of migrants killed in fire March 29, 2023By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News A fire in a Mexican immigration detention center has claimed the lives of at least 38 migrants, who appeared to be abandoned by guards as flames engulfed their locked cells, according to a leaked video from the facility near the U.S. border in Ciudad Juárez.
Salvadorans celebrate St. Oscar Romero’s ‘faith, courage’ at Mass on anniversary of his assassination March 28, 2023By Miguel Vivanco OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News With great enthusiasm and devotion, hundreds of Salvadoran families gathered for a March 24 Mass at the Sacred Heart Shrine in Washington to celebrate the feast of St. Oscar Romero, bishop and martyr from El Salvador.
