News from the Universal Church
By Matthew Trojacek with CNA Reports - Grzegorz Galazka and CNA photos February Tuesday 6 Clergy conference held in Rome Meeting of Pope Francis with priests (Photo OSV). Today about 1,000 priests from 60 countries around the world gathered in Rome for a conference on clerical formation. “Rekindle the Gift of God That Is [...]
Dignitatis Infinita condemns gender transition, surrogacy and abortion By Tyler Arnold (CNA) Presentation in the Holy See Press Office of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith’s Dignitas Infinita. Panelists: Secretary of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Monsignor Armando Matteo; Dicastery Prefect Cardinal Victor Fernandez; Professor Paola Scarcella, lecturer at the [...]
Vatican marks first feast of Coptic martyrs The Coptic icon that appears in the booklet of ecumenical celebration was held at St. Peter’s Basilica on February 15, the ninth anniversary of the execution of 20 Egyptian workers and a Ghanaian by Islamic State terrorists For the first time, the Catholic Church has celebrated the [...]
By Matthew Trojacek Syrians are on the brink of starvation, Church leader says People displaced by fighting between the Syrian Democratic Forces and Islamic State at a refugee camp in Ain Issa. In the circle, Archbishop Jacques Mourad, head the Archdiocese of Homs Catholics warn that Syrians are on the brink of starvation as [...]
By Devin Watkins (Vatican News) “The beauty of your work around Peter is that it is founded on the solid rock of responsibility in truth, not on the fragile sands of gossip and ideological interpretations.” Clementine Hall. January 22, 2014. Francis addresses Vatican journalists for the first time (Vatican Media) Pope Francis offered that [...]
Cardinal Ambongo, adviser to the Pope, flew to Rome to Protest to Pope Francis... By ACI Prensa/CNA Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, President of SECAM (Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar) since 2023, has also been a member of Pope Francis’ Council of Cardinal Advisers since 2020 (photo: Wikipedia) Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besengu, [...]
By Zenit News/ITV staff Since he became Pope 11 years ago, Francis has covered more than a quarter million miles — but never to Argentina. that could change this year. In the 11 years since Pope Francis assumed the Petrine office, on March 13, 2013, he has never once returned to his homeland, and [...]
One of the less-discussed effects of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, which erupted October 7, is the threat to, and possible elimination of, Christian communities in Gaza and throughout the Holy Land By Christopher Hart-Moynihan Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa (the tallest man in the back) together with other heads of Christian communities in the Holy [...]
Who are some of the “papabili”? A (partial) list of possible candidates to become the next Pope “UBI PETRUS, IBI ERGO ECCLESIA” (“WHERE PETER IS, THERE, THEREFORE, IS THE CHURCH”) Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, later to sit on the papal throne as Pope Benedict XVI (2005-2013), made clear in a November 19, 1998 text entitled The Primacy [...]
The Pope must "entrust himself to the College of Cardinals" By ITV Staff “Every Pope must distinguish precisely between his divine mandate and himself as an individual with all his limitations. He must not impose his private opinions regarding politics or economics or non-theological sciences on other Christians.” —Cardinal Gerhard Müller, Prefect Emeritus of the Dicastery [...]
