VATICAN, March 8, 2014 (CNA/EWTN News).- The Pope has announced the names of eight cardinals and seven lay experts from around the world chosen to serve in the newly-created Vatican Council for the Economy. “The members appointed to the Council are from various geographical areas, reflecting,...
The Asian Youth Day (AYD) 2014 is set to happen this August 10 to 17 in the Diocese of Daejon, South Korea. The invitation is addressed to the youth who will be coming together from different Asian countries. The event enables young people to gather...
VATICAN, March 27, 2014 (CNA/EWTN News).- During the March 27 meeting between Pope Francis and President Barack Obama, the two exchanged cordial discussion regarding the state of the Church in the U.S., as well as topics of shared interest. Lasting approximately 50 minutes long, the meeting...
MANILA, March 31, 2014— Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle received another task in the Roman Curia in what could be his sixth Vatican appointment. The latest is Pope Francis’ appointment of Tagle as member of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of...
MANILA, March 9, 2014— In countries like Germany and Austria, Filipino Catholics are forced to abandon their religion to avoid paying “Church tax” through their income tax, a priest said. Msgr. Joselito Asis, former Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines secretary general, said it is a...
The leader of Crimea’s Muslim Minority, the Tatars, warned about possible bloodshed in Crimea and southern Ukraine. “Our largest, biggest concern is about the possibility of clashes, of large scale bloodshed in Crimea,” said Mustafa Dzhemilev, also a member of Ukraine’s parliament said in a report...
VATICAN, March 8, 2014 (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis on Saturday sent a message to participants in an international symposium on the religious life, encouraging them to live their vows in an authentic manner. “What is not helpful is a theoretical poverty, but the poverty that is...
VATICAN City, Feb 27, 2014 (CNA/EWTN News)– In his daily homily Pope Francis spoke of the harm done when Christians don’t practice what they preach, noting that this incoherence leads others away from the Church and often brings scandal. “When there is no Christian coherency, and...
Insights of Pope Francis Are you thinking of a meaningful observance of Lent? Pope Francis offers “some helpful thoughts on our path of conversion as individuals and as a community.” He is inspired by the words of St. Paul: “He became poor, so that by His...
VATICAN CITY, Feb. 21, 2014 (CNS) — In late February, for the first time since his election nearly a year earlier, Pope Francis gathered the world’s cardinals at Vatican. The principal reason was to add 19 to their number at a ceremony called a consistory,...
