"The Church does not evangelize because she is faced with the great challenge of secularization, but because she must be obedient to the Lord's command to proclaim His Gospel to every creature.” The Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, offered that consideration on...
Laypeople in the Church can and must carry out many instituted ministries, supplementary services, assignments and offices, which, however, should "never become self-referential”, but always tend "to transform society" by bringing Christian values into the world. Pope Francis made this remark on Saturday in his address...
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has released a new report examining the Catholic community in the country, using data from the 2021 national census. The document, released by the bishops’ National Centre for Pastoral Research, profiles a community which is shrinking and aging, but also becoming...
“Men nowadays are becoming more and more convinced that any disputes which may arise between nations must be resolved by negotiation and agreement, and not by recourse to arms.” Sixty years ago, the saintly Pope John XXIII, as his life was drawing to an end,...
ROME — Pope Francis said emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning could be beneficial to society as long as they respect human dignity. “The fundamental value that we must recognize and promote is that of the dignity of the human person,” the pope...
Astronomers from the Leibniz-Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and the Vatican Observatory (VO) teamed up to spectroscopically survey more than 1000 bright stars which are suspected to host their own exoplanets. According to a Vatican Observatory statement, the team — which includes VO astronomers Fr. Paul...
“The first word that comes to me is that it seems like yesterday...
There are three key elements of the Lenten journey that begins each year with Ash Wednesday: prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Fasting, in particular, should not be understood only in its formal dimension. It has real significance, as Pope Francis repeatedly reminds us, if one follows...
Moderating Saturday’s proceedings for the Asian Continental Assembly on Syndality were Archbishop Anil Joseph Thomas Couto of Delhi, India; Dr Christina Kheng, a member of the Commission on Methodology; and Momoko Nishimura, a member of the Discernment and Drafting Group. The orientation for the day’s work...
ROME – While news agencies and Catholic social media denizens these days gorge themselves on the Vatican’s mounting “Battle of the Books,” seeing who can craft the most sensational headlines or tweets about several controversial new volumes making the rounds, other outfits are, thankfully, still...