Pope avoids confrontation with Italy on migration but says lives must be saved November 8, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis avoided a direct confrontation with Italy’s new government over immigration policies, but he still insisted “lives must be saved.”
In Bahrain, pope sees joy of Catholic minority, deepens ties with Muslims November 8, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Vatican, World News Traveling as a “sower of peace” to the Kingdom of Bahrain, Pope Francis further strengthened ties with the Muslim world and witnessed the joy and vitality of its minority and predominately expatriate Christian population.
U.S. bishops launch new approach to teaching the faith November 8, 2022By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2022, World News, Youth Ministry A new outreach to teaching the faith, called the Institute on the Catechism, will be a springboard for faith formation developed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Subcommittee on the Catechism.
Despair over declining numbers shows lack of faith, pope tells religious November 7, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Consecrated Life, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Numbers are a real challenge, but “those who get caught up in pessimism put faith aside,” the pope told students and staff of the Claretian Institute of the Theology of Consecrated Life in Rome and its affiliated programs in the Philippines, India, Colombia and Nigeria.
Ukrainian archbishop tells pope Russia wants to destroy, not negotiate November 7, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Pope Francis has continued to call on Russian and Ukrainian leaders to negotiate an end to the war, but the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church told him Russia wants only the destruction of Ukraine.
At border Mass above the Rio Grande, migrants who died are remembered November 7, 2022By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News – From an altar set on a platform just above the waters that straddle the U.S. and Mexico, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, celebrated a Mass Nov. 5 to remember migrants who’ve died trying to cross the waters below or along the border in 2022.
Pope tells young people: Skip Google, search God first for advice November 7, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Youth Ministry Everyone needs help to mature and to grow as a person of faith, Pope Francis told young people in Bahrain, so reach out to someone a bit older and wiser and don’t forget to pray.
How prisoners are treated reflects level of dignity, hope of society, pope says November 7, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Seek to be guardians and builders of unity, reaching out to dialogue with others and living as brothers and sisters, Pope Francis told the Catholic faithful and their bishops and priests from throughout the Persian Gulf.
As COP27 begins, religious leaders, civil groups have a wish list November 7, 2022By Doreen Ajiambo Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, World News As the latest U.N. climate change summit began, some faith and civil organizations had a long wish list of what they hoped it would achieve.
Pope: Chauvinism kills human progress; fight for equal rights must go on November 7, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News A society that does not give women the same rights and opportunities as men will become impoverished, Pope Francis said at the end of a four-day visit to Bahrain.
USCCB elections, ‘Faithful Citizenship’ discussion, prayer are on agenda in Baltimore November 6, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, Local News, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2022, World News The fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will find the bishops voting on a new president and vice president and how to proceed in disseminating their quadrennial document on Catholic participation in public life.
Superpowers at war add to the world’s poor, pope says in message November 5, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News The World Day of the Poor — marked each year on the 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time — will be celebrated Nov. 13 this year with the theme: “For your sakes Christ became poor.”
