Their interpretation can be confusing, says the DDF, and detrimental to ecumenism By Hannah Brockhaus (CNA)/ITV staff Pope Leo celebrates Mass November 3 with an image of Mary in the background. (photo: Grzegorz Galazka) The Vatican’s doctrinal office said Tuesday the titles of “Co-Redemptrix” and “Mediatrix” are not appropriate ways to describe Mary’s [...]
During the Mass on the Solemnity of All Saints on November 1, all the culmination of the Jubilee of the World of Education, Pope Leo XIV proclaimed St. John Henry Newman a "Doctor of the CHurch" and a Co-Patron, with St. Thomas Aquinas, of education By Alessandro Di Bussolo (Vatican News) The ceremony naming Cardinal [...]
"The blanket bombing has stopped," says Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, but "ordinary life has changed very little" By Andrea Tornielli and Francesco Sabatinelli (Vatican News) Gaza remained under Israeli bombardment as of late November — despite the fact that the implementation of the peace plan orchestrated by the US officially “took effect” October [...]
Don’t start the new year with a resolution to diet. Instead, head to your nearest bookstore or click on the internet to purchase the two recently-published must-haves for every Italophiles’ library and kitchen shelf. On October 28, Il Talismano della Felicità by Ada Boni, the most iconic and beloved Italian cookbook ever published, was translated and [...]
Interview with the first bishop to be consecrated by Pope Leo, Polish Archbishop Miroslaw Wachowski, new papal nuncio to Iraq. He was consecrated on October 26 in Rome By Anna Artymiak On October 26, Pope Leo XIV in St. Peter’s Basilica carried out the episcopal consecration of Miroslaw Stanisław Wachowski, whom Leo [...]
By Matthew Trojacek with Grzegorz Galazka photos Cardinal Tagle Visits Catholic Community in Azerbaijan On October 18, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Holy See’s Dicastery for Evangelization, visited Azerbaijan at the invitation of Bishop Vladimir Fekete and stopped at the construction site of the Saint John Paul II Church in Baku. The plot of [...]
By Matthew Trojacek with CNA Reports - Grzegorz Galazka and CNA photos October Friday 3 Cardinal Koch Congratulates Archbishop-Designate of Canterbury Sarah Mullally On October 3, King Charles III approved the nomination of Sarah Mullally, Bishop of London, as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury. She will be the first woman to hold the office, with [...]
More than a century ago, Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson foresaw the rise of secular humanism, the contraction of the Catholic Church, and the coming of the Antichrist By ITV Staff Editor’s Note: The passage below is from the novel Lord of the World, written by the English Catholic convert Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson (the son of the [...]
Jesus brings the two great commandments together By Anthony Esolen * "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your mind, and with all your strength" (Mk. 12:29-30; cf. Dt. 6:4). “Which commandment is the first [...]
"it cannot be considered the voice of the Synod, much less of the People of God as a whole" By Vatican News Pope Francis spotlighted the role of women in the Church during the Synod on Synodality. “The status quaestionis of historical research and theological investigation, as well as their mutual implications, rules out [...]
