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Faith News
August 21, 2023
“I am writing a second part to Laudato Si’ to update it on current problems,” Pope Francis told the lawyers Aug. 21 during a meeting in the library of the Apostolic Palace.
Faith News
August 15, 2023
“Praise increases joy. Praise is like a ladder: it leads hearts upward,” Pope Francis said. “Praise elevates souls and defeats the temptation to give up.”
Slovak Archbishop Cyril Vasil of Košice is seen in this file photo taken at the Vatican in November 2013 when he was serving as secretary of the then-Congregation for Eastern Churches. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Faith News
August 10, 2023
Controversy and deep division continue in an Indian archdiocese over the direction the priest faces during the celebration of the liturgy.
The pope stands in front of an ambulance that will go to Ukraine, blessing it.
Politics & Society News
June 30, 2023
Donations to the annual Peter’s Pence collection were down in 2022, but the amount of money the fund distributed increased significantly thanks to the proceeds of property sales, the Vatican said.
A stained glass window depicting a Black Catholic nun
Faith News
June 22, 2023
Pope Francis has declared venerable Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, founder of the first Catholic order of African American nuns, and Sister Lúcia dos Santos, one of the children who saw the Fátima vision.
Archbishop Gallagher virtually addresses the U.N.
Politics & Society News
June 14, 2023
In a message to the U.N. Security Council, Pope Francis expressed opposition to war: “We are all brothers and sisters, journeying on the same earth, dwelling in a single common home.”
dr sergio alfieri wearing a white labcoat speaks next to matteo bruni who wears a navy suit. they stand in front of a sign that reads "gemelli hospital"
Faith News
June 14, 2023
A week after undergoing abdominal surgery, Pope Francis’ recovery is going well enough that his doctors are making plans to discharge him from Rome’s Gemelli hospital, the Vatican press office said.
Catholic Pope baptizes a baby in a gilded font
Faith News
June 01, 2023
The statistical yearbook noted “a general downward trend in the relative number of baptisms, following closely the trend in the birthrate in most countries.”
Pope Francis on the left shakes hands with Martin Scorsese in the center and Helen Morris Scorsese on the right in a daylight hall at the Vatican.
Faith News
May 30, 2023
Catholic artists, poets, writers and filmmakers serve the church not by trying to “domesticate” Christ but by helping people challenge and expand their knowledge of the Lord, Pope Francis said.
A portrait of an Italian priest in Roman collar
Faith News
May 22, 2023
The help Father Beotti “offered to many Jewish people persecuted by the Nazi-Fascists played a decisive role” in his death, according to the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints.