“I invite every community and every one of the faithful to join with me next Friday, March 25, the solemnity of the Annunciation, in making this solemn act of consecration of humanity.”
Gerard O’Connell
Gerard O’Connell is America’s senior Vatican correspondent and author of The Election of Pope Francis: An Inside Story of the Conclave That Changed History. He has been covering the Vatican since 1985.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
With Pope Francis’ reform of the Roman Curia, nine years of work is coming to fruition
“Praedicate Evangelium” allows for greater involvement of lay men and women in church governance and assigns the protection of minors a central place in the Curia’s structure.
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An interview with Pope Francis’ friend Marcelo Figueroa, the first Protestant editor at the Vatican newspaper
The first Protestant ever to be employed as an editor by L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican daily newspaper, has published a 367-page book on the ecumenical journey of the first Latin American pope.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis and Russia’s Patriarch Kirill have video call and express hope for peace in Ukraine
America has learned the meeting between the two religious leaders was first planned a week ago. It was not confirmed who initiated the exchange, but it was the first time the two have spoken since this war broke out.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Cardinal Parolin calls for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine: ‘Peace is not a utopia.’
On the 17th day of the war in Ukraine, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, repeated Pope Francis’ call for “an immediate ceasefire” in Ukraine.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Inside Cardinal Czerny’s visit to Ukraine
“The people who come are not dead in a technical sense, but they have lost their lives. And they don’t have a new one yet, so they are terribly beaten, and terribly vulnerable.”
Posted inFaith, GoodNews
Meet Sister Lucía Caram, the nun who drove 4,000 miles in a weekend to save Ukrainian refugees
Sister Lucía departed from Manresa at 6 a.m. on March 4 and arrived in Romania the following evening. On the morning of March 6, she set out on the return journey to Spain, bringing six refugees with her.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Cardinal Krajewski in Ukraine: ‘Faith can move mountains, not to mention a stupid war.’
“Faith can move mountains, not to mention a stupid war,” Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner whom Pope Francis sent to Ukraine, told journalists in Lviv.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
‘Rivers of blood and tears are flowing in Ukraine,’ Pope Francis says. The war must end now.
Pope Francis called for a stop to the armed attacks in Ukraine, and for negotiations and good sense to prevail.
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Pope Francis on the war in Ukraine: ‘Let the guns be silenced.’
Praying for an end to the war in Ukraine, Pope Francis called for prayer and fasting for the people of Ukraine.