The 460-page commemorative volume gathers just a slice of the kind of rigorous research still being done today “in the light of faith,” and in the footsteps of a 90-year-old pope.
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
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Pope Francis: An ‘orderly and comfortable life’ is not a life for Christ
“The devil always comes in through the pocket, always,” the pope said.
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Pope praises Catholics and Lutherans getting together to discuss Luther
The pope told the participants that his first reaction to hearing about “this praiseworthy initiative” was one of gratitude to God.
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Global peace demands an end to nuclear weapons, Pope Francis tells U.N.
A number of nations—many of which already possess nuclear arms—were boycotting the negotiations to ban such weapons.
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Pope Francis set to visit Egypt, paving the way for increased interfaith dialogue
The invitation came amid increasingly closer relations between the Vatican and al-Azhar University, which is considered the most authoritative theological-academic institution of Sunni Islam.
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Don’t close doors to refugees, church leaders say
The answer to the refugee crisis is continued assistance “not to close the gates of the countries where people are knocking for survival,” Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi said.
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Vatican workshop: Focus on profit and fossil fuels is a bigger threat to the earth than population growth
Solutions should focus more on correcting unjust systems and selfish behaviors than population control.
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Abuse survivor quits protection commission, says Vatican wasn’t protecting children and vulnerable adults
Marie Collins, one of the founding members and the last remaining abuse survivor on the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, has quit.
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Potential of life on newly discovered planets shows God’s “creative greatness,” say religious leaders
Even the pope’s own astronomers applauded the new discovery.
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Abortion, contraception, vaccines: Vatican releases guide of the church’s bioethical teachings
The charter “reaffirms the sanctity of life” as a gift from God and calls on those working in health care to be “servants” and “ministers of life.”