Vatican City, Feb 7, 2022 / 13:00 pm The Vatican acknowledged on Monday that the Church’s effort to listen to the 1.34 billion Catholics worldwide through a synodal process is facing challenges. “Many of the faithful perceive the synodal process as a crucial moment in the Church’s...
Vatican City, Jan 30, 2022 / 08:30 am Pope Francis encouraged people Sunday to be open to the newness Jesus wants to bring in their daily lives and to cultivate the capacity to wonder. “The Lord always surprises us. This is the beauty of an encounter with...
Vatican City, Jan 24, 2022 / 04:18 am Pope Francis said on Monday that the two-year global consultation process leading to the Synod on Synodality is “a great opportunity” for Catholics to listen to one another. Writing in his World Communications Day message, released on Jan. 24,...
Vatican City, Jan 13, 2022 / 10:27 am Preparations are already underway in Rome for the 2025 Jubilee, a special year of grace and pilgrimage in the Catholic Church. Archbishop Rino Fisichella met with Pope Francis this month to discuss the motto for the jubilee. In a video...
Vatican City, Jan 18, 2022 / 08:20 am The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector, and acolyte upon lay men and women for the first time in St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday. Candidates from three continents will receive the new...
Vatican City, Jan 9, 2022 / 03:05 am Pope Francis baptized babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday for the first time since the worldwide outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. The pope baptized 16 babies — seven boys and nine girls — on Jan. 9, the Feast...
Vatican City, Dec 21, 2021 / 03:45 am Pope Francis called for more investment in education and less in weaponry in his 2022 World Peace Day message, released Tuesday. In the message published Dec. 21, the pope said the world had witnessed a “significant reduction” in education...
Pope Francis on Sunday asked for prayers and assistance for victims of a strong typhoon that claimed lives and rendered thousands homeless in the Philippines. After praying the Angelus in St. Peter’s Square, the pope expressed his closeness to Filipinos suffering from the devastation caused by...
Pope Francis on Monday received in audience Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and authorized him to promulgate 6 decrees regarding 2 miracles and 4 heroic virtues. Future saint Marie Rivier One of the miracles is through the intercession of...
Athens, Greece, Dec 6, 2021 / 04:20 am Pope Francis urged young people in Athens on Monday not to be “prisoners of the cell phone,” but to truly share their lives with others. Speaking in a school sports hall in a suburb of the Greek capital on...