Major stories that get to the pith of the situation.
Is she a mother or a "holding tank"? By Anthony Esolen Mosaic on the showing facade of Santa Maria in Trastevere church in Rome Mary nursing the baby Jesus Suddenly a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to Jesus, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts that you [...]
...and calls for its global prohibition. He made the call January 8 to the world's diplomats By Courtney Mares (CNA) Pope Francis called surrogacy “deplorable” and called for a global ban on the exploitative practice of “so-called surrogate motherhood” in an annual speech to all of the world’s ambassadors to the Vatican on January 8. “The [...]
“Am I ready for an exchange? Anything, if that can lead to freedom and bring those children home” — Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa By ITV staff/CNA On October 7, Hamas led the deadliest militant attack in Israel’s history, with an Israeli death toll at more than 1400. Israel then launched its heaviest-ever airstrikes [...]
May 13, 2023, Vatican City. Arrival of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky for the meeting with Pope Francis, accompanied by Father Leonardo Sapienza (Vatican/Pool/Galazka) After the Pope’s allusions to possible Vatican efforts toward peace and much subsequent speculation, Pope Francis met on Saturday, May 13 — the anniversary of the first Fatima apparition [...]
By Robert Moynihan British Cardinal Arthur Roche, 73, the Pope’s head of the Dicastery for Divine Worship since 2021, spoke briefly in a BBC report on Sunday, March 19 on the issue of the Vatican’s limiting of the Traditional Latin Mass (abbreviated as the “TLM”) on July 16, 2021, in Traditionis custodes. The BBC report [...]
By ITV Staff 1. Cardinal Michael F. Czerny, S.J., 76, is a Czechoslovakian-born Canadian who has been prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development since April 23, 2022, previously undersecretary of the dicastery since 2017. Pope Francis made him a cardinal in 2019. Czerny has worked to promote social justice in Canada, Latin America, [...]
The Jesuit Pope has handpicked an unprecedented number of his confrères for influential positions. In what direction are they leading the Church? By Sandro Magister (Settimo Cielo) On January 11, 2016, at the Vatican, Pope Francis led a group of cardinals into the Sala Regia to receive the representatives of the Diplomatic Corps accredited to [...]
October 24 interview in L'Osservatore Romano with Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, Archbishop of Luxembourg and Relator General of the upcoming Synod on Synodality By Andrea Monda and Roberto Cetera Following are excerpts of an October 24, 2022 interview in L’Osservatore Romano with Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, Archbishop of Luxembourg and president of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences [...]
But should its results thus far give the Holy See pause? By Christina Deardurff On October 16, during his Sunday Angelus, Pope Francis, in a surprise decision, announced that the scheduled 2023 Synod on Synodality would be extended for an additional year. The Synod will thus begin in Rome in October 2023, but then continue for [...]
February 27, 2022, St. Peter’s Square. Angelus prayer presided over by Pope Francis from the window of his study in the Apostolic Palace. A group of Ukrainians who live in Italy with their families came to St. Peter’s Square to show their solidarity with their motherland Ukraine, as the war began on February 24, 2022. [...]
