“We told the Holy Father that we are afraid because we are forgetting our language; it is being extinguished because we are asphyxiated by the models of development that come from outside that do not respect life.”
Pope Francis
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
The Amazon synod is halfway over. Here’s what we know so far.
As the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon reaches its halfway point, leaders of indigenous communities are speaking with passion about what is at stake for their communities and their hopes for this synod.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis: Food is becoming an avenue of personal destruction
Pope Francis said, “We must come to realize that what we are accumulating and wasting is the bread of the poor.”
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Inside the relaxed atmosphere of the Amazon synod
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” the hosts explain how the Amazon synod is different from previous synods.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis appoints cybersecurity expert to head Vatican Security Services
He takes over from Commander Giani, who resigned yesterday after taking “objective” but not “subjective” responsibility for the leaking to an Italian journalist of a reserved notice informing Vatican security personnel that five employees had been suspended from their work “as a precautionary measure.”
Posted inFaith, News
A case of ‘accidental evangelization’: Papal tweet about #Saints goes viral
A hashtag mix-up caused a papal tweet meant to give thanks for the Catholic Church’s newest saints to be read as Pope Francis showing support for the New Orleans Saints’ football team.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Head of Vatican security resigns following news leak connected to internal financial investigation
Domenico Giani resigned after being unable to identify the source of a leak of a confidential Vatican security notice connected to ongoing financial investigations.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis canonizes five new saints, including John Henry Newman
The new saints include three women religious who cared for the poor and the sick, a laywoman mystic and the most significant English Catholic theologian of modern times.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis appoints U.S. archbishop to head Vatican’s school for diplomats
Archbishop Marino comes to his new post with considerable diplomatic experience in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America, including 11 years of service in three majority-Muslim states and seven years working in the Vatican’s Secretariat of State.
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Amazon Synod looks at indigenous ‘theology of creation’
“Our Christian faith and the church teach us to seek and to find God in all things, as St. Ignatius says in the Spiritual Exercises. There is no pantheism in this.”