The Vatican said the reason for the apostolic visitation in 2017 was due to “shortcomings concerning the style of government, the life of the members of the council, the pastoral care of vocations, the formation of new vocations, administration, the management of works and fundraising.”
Vatican Dispatch
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis meets with Father James Martin in private audience
Pope Francis received Fr. James Martin S.J. in the papal library of the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace this morning.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis reminds Christians that migrants and refugees should be welcomed around the world
Pope Francis denounced “the globalization of indifference” as he celebrated Mass in St Peter’s Square on the 105th World Day of Migrants and Refugees on Sept. 29.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis to Jesuits in Mozambique: ‘I am and I remain a sinner.’
“My election as pope did not convert me suddenly,” Pope Francis said, “so as to make me less sinful than before. I am and I remain a sinner. That’s why I confess every two weeks.”
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Vatican releases list of participants for Synod on the Amazon
The list includes all of the diocesan bishops of the nine countries from the Amazon region, as well as three from the United States.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Archbishop Gomez: V Encuentro brings the vision of Pope Francis to the United States
Some 40 percent of the U.S. Catholic community has a Hispanic background and that “more than 50 percent of the Catholics in the United States under the age of 18 are Hispanic.”
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Prosecution of priest accused of abusing Vatican altar boys begins
Rev. Gabriele Martinelli is accused of the sexual abuse of altar boys who served the papal masses in St. Peter’s Basilica and who lived in a Vatican pre-seminary in the years before 2012.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis to visit Japan and Thailand in November
Pope Francis believes that Christianity and the Catholic Church can have a great future in this continent where two-thirds of humanity live.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis on plane: ‘I am not afraid of schisms. I pray they do not happen.’
Heading home from his trip to Africa, the pope criticized “schools of rigidity” in the church but said he welcomed criticism and did not see a U.S. schism as imminent. America’s Vatican correspondent, Gerard O’Connell, reports.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis praises diversity of Mauritius but encourages greater openness to migrants
Pope Francis encouraged the Mauritian people to support “a better division of income and the integral promotion of the poor” and “not to yield to the temptation of an idolatrous economic model that sacrifices human lives on the altar of speculation and profit alone.”