Vatican City, Jan 24, 2022 / 04:18 am Pope Francis said on Monday that the two-year global consultation process leading to the Synod on Synodality is “a great opportunity” for Catholics to listen to one another. Writing in his World Communications Day message, released on Jan. 24,...
Vatican City, Jan 13, 2022 / 10:27 am Preparations are already underway in Rome for the 2025 Jubilee, a special year of grace and pilgrimage in the Catholic Church. Archbishop Rino Fisichella met with Pope Francis this month to discuss the motto for the jubilee. In a video...
Vatican City, Jan 18, 2022 / 08:20 am The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector, and acolyte upon lay men and women for the first time in St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday. Candidates from three continents will receive the new...
Vatican City, Jan 9, 2022 / 03:05 am Pope Francis baptized babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday for the first time since the worldwide outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. The pope baptized 16 babies — seven boys and nine girls — on Jan. 9, the Feast...
Vatican City, Dec 21, 2021 / 03:45 am Pope Francis called for more investment in education and less in weaponry in his 2022 World Peace Day message, released Tuesday. In the message published Dec. 21, the pope said the world had witnessed a “significant reduction” in education...
Pope Francis on Sunday asked for prayers and assistance for victims of a strong typhoon that claimed lives and rendered thousands homeless in the Philippines. After praying the Angelus in St. Peter’s Square, the pope expressed his closeness to Filipinos suffering from the devastation caused by...
Pope Francis on Monday received in audience Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and authorized him to promulgate 6 decrees regarding 2 miracles and 4 heroic virtues. Future saint Marie Rivier One of the miracles is through the intercession of...
Athens, Greece, Dec 6, 2021 / 04:20 am Pope Francis urged young people in Athens on Monday not to be “prisoners of the cell phone,” but to truly share their lives with others. Speaking in a school sports hall in a suburb of the Greek capital on...
Pope Francis met the new Philippine ambassador to the Holy See, Ms. Myla Grace Ragenia Macahilig, who presented her credential letters at the Vatican on Saturday. The Vatican News tweeted the photos of the pope’s meeting with Macahilig as she “officially” began her new diplomatic role. The...
Vatican City, Nov 7, 2021 / 06:55 am The sacred things of our Catholic faith must be freed from their ties with money, Pope Francis said on Sunday. In a reflection on the Gospel of the “widow’s mite” Nov. 7, the pope praised the woman for giving...