News from the Universal Church
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 [...]
"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 [...]
Pope Leo XIV Inaugurates Borgo Laudato Si' at Castel Gandolfo By Linda Bordoni (Vatican News) Pope Leo XIV attends the inauguration of the "Borgo Laudato Si'" Advanced Training Center at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo (Italy), 5 September 2025. Pope Leo XIV on September 5 inaugurated the Laudato si’ Village (Borgo Laudato [...]
Dilexi Te—I have Loved You—says Leo, is a continuation of Dilexit Nos, Francis' encyclical on the heart of Christ By Anna Artymiak Giotto, "The Gift of the Cloak," Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi. The end of September and the beginning of October marked two long-awaited acts of Leo XIV: on September 26, the appointment [...]
In his first appointment of a head of a Vatican department, Pope Leo names Archbishop Filippo Iannone, O. Carm.―who has been serving as Prefect of the Dicastery for Legislative texts―as Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops. By Salvatore Cernuzio (Vatican News) Archbishop Iannone, is a jurist, and canon lawyer with extensive experience in courts, pontifical [...]
Group aims to support converts' Jewish identity while practicing orthodox Catholicism By Madalaine Elhabbal (CNA) The statue of Ecclesia and Synagoga of the Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia to honour the declaration Nostra Aetate, promulgated on October 28, 1965 by the Second Vatican Council A group dedicated to providing a welcoming space for Jew-ish [...]
By Matthew Trojacek Call between Zelenskyy and Cardinal Parolin: prayers for Pope, peace Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (pictured above) discussed the Holy See’s role in the “path toward peace” Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shared news of a March 14 call with Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal [...]
By Matthew Trojacek Forcibly mobilized Ukrainian priest released after a week A priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was released after being forcibly drafted for Ukraine’s army. On December 21, on his way home from visiting his wife in the hospital where she had just given birth to their second child, Father Evgeny Rozhdestvensky was taken [...]
