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...
Vatican City, Nov 1, 2021 / 06:05 am On All Saints’ Day, Pope Francis said true happiness does not come from being young, rich, or successful, as the world thinks, but from the counter-cultural idea to follow Jesus Christ. “The world says that in order to have...
Rome, Italy, Nov 2, 2021 / 06:15 am Pope Francis visited a military cemetery in Rome to pray on All Souls’ Day and offered Mass for the faithful departed. During his live-streamed visit to the French Military Cemetery on Nov. 2, the pope walked past rows of...
The Vatican’s Apostolic Penitentiary published a decree on Thursday providing for the possibility of obtaining plenary indulgences in favour of the faithful departed throughout the entire month of November. The decree, signed by Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, notes that the decision to once again extend the time...