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The Vatican is reportedly weighing Cardinal Patriarch Bèchara Raï’s proposal By Giuseppe Rusconi In the main photo, a fire in Beirut’s harbor Lebanese Cardinal Patriarch Béchara Raï Little reassuring news continues to arrive from Lebanon on the country’s strength. After the resignation of the Sunni government of Hassan Diab on August 10, [...]

Confusion continues regarding Vatican finances as one cardinal (Becciu) is sacked, another (Pell) returns to Rome, a new report on the Holy See’s finances appears, and a Vatican consultant is arrested By Christina Deardurff Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu The Roman Curia of the Catholic Church released, for the first time in years, a relatively [...]

Teenagers, he said, feel a “surprising resonance” with the masterpiece Pope Francis said October 10 that the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri should inspire people to rediscover the Italian poet’s Divine Comedy. The Pope made the remark in an address to a delegation from the Italian Archdiocese of Ravenna-Cervia, in which he announced [...]

By Becky Derks Catholic Bishops join Orthodox in "Day of Mourning" for Hagia Sophia Catholic bishops across the United States have issued joint statements with their Greek Orthodox counterparts expressing sorrow at the reopening of Hagia Sophia as a mosque. July 24, was declared a “Day of Mourning” as the former Byzantine cathedral opened for [...]

Despite the opening of his Archives, some detractors of Pius XII continue to peddle misinformation about him By Matteo Luigi Napolitano In Rome in the early 1900s: an image from daily life at the Fountain of the Tartarughe (Turtles) in the historic Jewish ghetto area. To the right, the round-up by German [...]

Our "Inalienable dignity" is the "foundation of all social life" By Courtney Mares (CNA) Pope Francis has praised the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a powerful defense of the principle of the inalienable dignity of the human person. In the photo, Eleanor Roosevelt, who was a promoter of the Declaration, which was approved [...]

This ordinary young Italian was filled with the love of God. He will be beatified on October 10. By Meg Hunter-Kilmer Carlo Acutis, who died unexpectedly at age 15 in 2006. He hiked, played soccer, went to daily Mass and was filled with the love of God. He will be beatified in Assisi, where [...]

A book publishing conversations between Pope Francis and Carlo Petrini, the founder of the Slow Food organization, highlights the Pope’s emphasis on dialogue with others. Petrini, 71, is a well-known Italian gastronomist, agnostic, and ex-Communist who started Slow Food in 1989 to safeguard local food culture. It is in this context that the author introduces [...]