Category : Updates

Who was Titus Brandsma?

Titus Brandsma as rector magnificus of the Catholic University of Nijmegen in 1932. / Public area. Vatican City, Mar 8, 2022 / 02:05 am (CNA). The primary canonization ceremony for more than two and a half years will happen on Might 15. Among...

Pope Francis names Washington priest as an auxiliary bishop of Seattle

Father Frank Schuster, who was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Seattle March 8, 2022. / Archdiocese of Seattle Vatican Metropolis, Mar eight, 2022 / 05:15 am (CNA). Pope Francis on Tuesday named Father Frank Schuster as an auxiliary bishop of t...

Cardinal Parolin urges end to attacks in call with Russia’s foreign minister

Cardinal Pietro Parolin speaks in a Vatican Information interview revealed Nov. 30, 2021. / Screenshot from Vatican Information - Italiano YouTube channel. Vatican City, Mar eight, 2022 / 08:00 am (CNA). Cardinal Pietro Parolin urged an end t...

Pope Francis wants 2023 World Youth Day in Lisbon to be an ‘event with life’

Portuguese pilgrims at WYD 2019, excited that their house nation is about to host the subsequent World Youth Day. / Jonah McKeown/CNA Vatican City, Mar eight, 2022 / 09:10 am (CNA). Given the various challenges the world is dealing with, subs...

Pope Francis’ March prayer intention: For Christians facing new bioethical challenges

Human Embryo, File Photograph. / Firstbrook Simply Click on 100 by way of Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.zero). Vatican City, Mar 8, 2022 / 09:50 am (CNA). Pope Francis’ prayer intention for March is that bioethical issues will probably be approached wit...

Caritas Ukraine president lauds women’s courage amid Ukraine conflict

Refugees await trains at Lviv railway station in western Ukraine. / Ruslan Lytvyn/Shutterstock. Vatican Metropolis, Mar 8, 2022 / 11:00 am (CNA). The president of Caritas Ukraine on Tuesday praised the braveness and power that ladies have sho...

How Pope Francis’ tone on the Ukraine war has shifted

Pope Francis delivers his Angelus tackle on March 6, 2022. / Vatican Media. Vatican City, Mar eight, 2022 / 13:15 pm (CNA). Pope Francis’ Angelus handle on Sunday marked a substantial change of pace in the diplomatic motion of the Holy See in...

Why the Zanchetta case matters for the Church

Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta. / Diocesis de Orán Vatican City, Mar 11, 2022 / 10:35 am (CNA). The Vatican made no public remark when Bishop Gustavo Óscar Zanchetta, an Argentine prelate intently associated with Pope Francis, was sentenced to 4 an...

Nicaragua government expels Vatican diplomat

Daniel Ortega celebrates his re-inauguration as president of Nicaragua, Jan. 10, 2012. / Cancilleria del Ecuador by way of Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.zero). Vatican Metropolis, Mar 12, 2022 / 05:10 am (CNA). The Nicaraguan authorities has ended its a...

On eve of Becciu hearing, Pope Francis tells Vatican judges: ‘Listen to everyone’

Pope Francis speaks on the opening of the 93rd judicial yr of the Vatican City State courts on March 12, 2022 / Vatican Media Vatican City, Mar 12, 2022 / 08:00 am (CNA). On the eve of the Vatican’s trial of Cardinal Angelo Becciu for fraud,...

Pope Francis: The saints show us how to live in communion with the Church

Father Arturo Sosa, Superior Common of the Society of Jesus, says a Mass commemorating the 400th anniversary of the canonization of Saints Ignatius of Loyola, Francis Xavier, Teresa of Avila, Philip Neri, and Isidore the Farmer, with Pope Fran...

Pope Francis: In the name of God, 'stop this massacre' in Ukraine

Banner calling for the consecration of Russia is displayed during Pope Francis' Angelus in St. Peter's Square on March 13, 2022. / Vatican Media Denver Newsroom, Mar 13, 2022 / 07:19 am (CNA). Pope Francis on Sunday referred to as f...

Pope Francis: Ask the Holy Spirit to awaken your desire to pray

Pope Francis waves to crowd gathered for the Angelus at St. Peter's Sq. on March 13, 2022. / Vatican Media Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 13, 2022 / 07:37 am (CNA). Noting that Luke's Gospel reveals that Peter, James, and John had f...

Pope Francis meets shot South Sudan bishop&elect at Vatican

Bishop-elect Christian Carlassare in a hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, April 27, 2021, after having been shot in Rumbek, South Sudan. / ACI Africa/CNA Vatican Metropolis, Mar 14, 2022 / 05:30 am (CNA). On Monday, Pope Francis met the South Sudan...

Here’s why Pope Francis is warning against the ‘temptation of activism’

Pope Francis meets members of the Anima per il Sociale nei Valori d’Impresa association on the Vatican’s Clementine Hall, March 14, 2022. / Vatican Media. Vatican Metropolis, Mar 14, 2022 / 10:30 am (CNA). Pope Francis on Monday stated it is...