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By Linda Bordoni Advertisements The date of 13 April 1986 is etched in history as the day of the first-ever recorded papal visit to a Synagogue. It was a rainy spring afternoon […]
By Felipe Herrera-Espaliat Advertisements The Angelus on Sunday and the General Audience both took place in the library of the Apostolic Palace due to anti-Covid precautionary measures. These same measures will characterise […]
By Vatican News staff writer Advertisements Pope Francis and France’s President Emmanuel Macron spoke by phone on Sunday, according to a press release from the President’s Office at Élysée Palace. The call, […]
By Devin Watkins & Nathan Morley Advertisements On 15 March 2011, unrest among the people of Syria boiled over. Protests against the Ba’athist government of President Bashar al-Assad escalated into an armed […]
By Robin Gomes Advertisements Pope Francis on Monday left Iraq, bringing the curtain down on the 33rd apostolic journey of his pontificate, and the first visit of a ponriff to the Middle […]
By Robin Gomes Advertisements Pope Francis hopes that reflection and exchange on his encyclical, Fratelli tutti, can help dialogue grow between Christians and Muslims, not only in the Russian Federation, but everywhere […]
By Vatican News staff writer Advertisements Participants at this year’s Religious Education Congress are discussing the theme, “Proclaim the Promise!” – a radical invitation to believe that our lives and our world […]
By Vatican News Advertisements Pope Francis’ motu proprio Recante modifiche in materia di giustizia (“Introducing modifications in the area of justice”), published on Tuesday, provides for reduction of sentences, the possibility of […]
By Linda Bordoni Advertisements Expressing his closeness to “the victims of a calamity that happened three days ago in the North of India where part of a glacier separated itself provoking violent […]
By Vatican News staff writer Advertisements The first-ever International Day of Human Fraternity, commemorated on Thursday, was marked with a virtual event which saw the participation of Pope Francis and several other […]
By Vatican News staff reporter Advertisements During his Wednesday General Audience, Pope Francis recalled that Thursday, 4 February, marks the first International Day of Human Fraternity. The world day was established by […]
By Devin Watkins Advertisements Speaking from the library of the Apostolic Palace, Pope Francis held his Wednesday General Audience which was live-streamed to the faithful around the world. In his continuing catechesis […]
By Vatican News staff writer Advertisements At the Mass for the Presentation of the Lord, Pope Francis focused on the words of Simeon when he “looked forward to the consolation of Israel” […]
By Vatican News staff reporter Advertisements The UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is hosting the fifth global meeting of the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum, which takes place from 2-4 February and […]
By Christopher Wells Advertisements Pope Francis spoke privately with members of a delegation from Catholic News Service, during an audience marking the one hundredth anniversary of the agency’s establishment by the Bishops […]
By Vatican News staff reporter Advertisements “Today we commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and all those persecuted and deported by the Nazi regime,” Pope Francis said at his weekly General Audience. […]
By Devin Watkins Advertisements The Catholic Church in Latin America and the Caribbean has begun the journey toward its first-ever Ecclesial Assembly. The event, originally scheduled for Spring 2021, will instead take […]
By Francesca Merlo Advertisements Opening his preface to the book, Pope Francis notes that his intent is to deliver Joy’s testimony as a “heritage of humanity”. The book recounts the story of […]
By Devin Watkins Advertisements Many residents in Calle de Toledo in Madrid were having lunch on Wednesday when a massive explosion rocked the area. Authorities in the Spanish capital said the blast […]
By Vatican News Advertisements This was Benedict XVI’s first Christmas without his brother Georg, although his presence was somehow felt, says Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the personal secretary of the Pope emeritus. The […]
By Christopher Wells Advertisements Pope Francis reflected on the dimension of praise in prayer, at the General Audience on Wednesday, taking as his starting point “a critical moment in the life of […]
By Robin Gomes Advertisements “A society is all the more human to the degree that it cares effectively for its most frail and suffering members, in a spirit of fraternal love.” Pope Francis […]
By Vatican News Advertisements With a Motu proprio released on Monday, Pope Francis established that from now on the ministries of Lector and Acolyte are to be open to women, in a […]
By Vatican News Advertisements The Pope is inviting everyone to rediscover our common unity, to be close to those who suffer, to feel like brothers and sisters in order to overcome together […]
By Linda Bordoni Advertisements Pope Francis extended his “loving greeting” to the people of the United States of America whom, he said, are “shaken by the recent assault on Congress” and […]
By Vatican News staff writer Advertisements Marking the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, Pope Francis reflected on the Liturgy of the day that tells of how Jesus’ pubic life began. […]
By Vatican News staff writer Advertisements Pope Francis says the unfolding of events on Capitol Hill in Washington DC on 6 January “came as a surprise” to him. However, he noted, no […]
By Vatican News Advertisements Uruguayan jurist Guzmán Carriquiry Lecour is certainly one of the best-known faces in the Roman Curia. He began his service at the Vatican in the early 1970s when […]
By Vatican News staff writer Advertisements Cardinal Henri Schwery, Bishop emeritus of Sion in Switzerland, died on Thursday at the age of 88 in his hometown of Saint-Léonard. In response to his […]
By Robin Gomes Advertisements Pope Francis has sent a brief message to Venezuelan Cardinal Baltazar Porras Cardozo, Archbishop of Merida and apostolic administrator of Caracas, on the occasion of his name feast […]
More than a week after the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, delivered his Christmas Day message on the state of the nation, the controversy it has generated […]
By Vatican News staff writer Advertisements After reciting the Angelus on the feast of the Epiphany, Pope Francis turned his thoughts to the Central African Republic, assuring that he is following events […]
By Devin Watkins Advertisements In his greetings following the Angelus prayer on Wednesday, Pope Francis recalled that Orthodox Christians and Eastern Rite Catholics are preparing to celebrate Christmas on 7 January. The […]
By Devin Watkins Advertisements As the Church marks the feast of the Epiphany on Wednesday, Pope Francis joined Catholics around the world in praying the Angelus in live-streaming. Standing in the library […]
By Christopher Wells Advertisements “In our day, it is particularly necessary for us, both as individuals and communities, to devote more time to worship,” said Pope Francis at the Mass on Epiphany. […]
By Vatican News Advertisements Pope Francis Pope will not hold this year’s traditional Baptism of infants in the Vatican’s famed Sistine Chapel on Sunday, 10 January, due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, the […]
By Vatican News staff writer Advertisements The Pope Video for January, the first of 2021, was released on Tuesday with the prayer intention that Pope Francis is entrusting to the entire Catholic […]
By Vatican News staff reporter Advertisements Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal John Njue from the pastoral governance of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Nairobi, Kenya, the Holy See Press Office […]
By Vatican News Advertisements The Pope has accepted the resignation presented by Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz for having reached the age limit. The daily bulletin of the Holy See Press Office announced the […]
As we enter the new year, Senior Pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Centre Worldwide, Paul Enenche has released his 2021 prophecies. Advertisements The prophet said 2021 is a year of restoration as […]
By Alessandro Gisotti Advertisements Can we communicate by listening? We live in a time when it seems that if we do not have the last word we have “lost out” in communicating. […]
By Vatican News staff writer Advertisements Pope Francis opened his first Angelus of the New Year by urging the faithful to join in “placing ourselves under the maternal and loving gaze of […]
Pope Francis on Friday named Bishop Paul Martin, S.M., as Coadjutor Archbishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Wellington, N.Z. Bishop Martin has been serving as Bishop of the Diocese of Christchurch since […]
By Vatican News staff reporter Advertisements Holy Mass for the Solemnity of Mary, the Most Holy Mother of God, was celebrated on the morning of New Year’s Day by Cardinal Secretary of […]
By Vatican News staff reporter Advertisements Pope Francis, suffering from an attack of sciatica, was absent from the celebration of Vespers and the recitation of the Te Deum – the Church’s solemn […]
By Vatican News staff writer Advertisements Pope Francis will not preside over end of year Vespers and the solemn changing of the Te Deum this evening, 31 December, in St. Peter’s Basilica […]
By Isabella Piro Advertisements Synodality is not “a mere decision-making process”, but “a fundamental feature of the Church’s identity, says Cardinal Michael Czerny, Undersecretary of the Migrants and Refugees Section of the […]
By Vatican News staff writer Advertisements Continuing his series of catechesis on prayer, Pope Francis, during his general audience this week, dwelt upon the importance of gratitude in prayer, which he said […]
By Isabella Piro Advertisements Sunday, 8 March 2020, can be seen as a symbolic line that separates the ‘before’ and the ‘after’ of a unique year in many respects. It is the […]
By Vatican News staff writer Advertisements Pope Francis on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, who had presented his request for retirement at the age of 75, as required by […]
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