VATICAN---The Vatican published Tuesday major revisions to Book VI of the Code of Canon Law, which covers penal law in the Church, including sanctions related to clerical sexual abuse. The revisions, which have been more than a decade in the making, were first commissioned by Benedict...
Pope Francis asked on Monday for the intercession of Mary, Undoer of Knots, as he ended a month-long global rosary marathon. The pope led the recitation of the rosary in a breezy Vatican Gardens May 31 before an image of the Virgin Mary untying knots brought...
Pope Francis issued an apostolic letter Tuesday formally instituting the new lay ministry of catechist. The Vatican released the papal letter, Antiquum ministerium (“Ancient ministry”), on May 11 in eight languages, including Italian Sign Language. The pope said that the institution of the new lay ministry would...
Greeting Polish pilgrims at the General Audience on Wednesday, Pope Francis recalled the 40th anniversary tomorrow of the assassination attempt on Pope Saint John Paul II. “He was certain that he owed his life to Our Lady of Fatima,” he said, noting that “that this makes...
VATICAN--The Vatican's divine worship office announced Saturday the addition of seven new invocations to the Litany of St. Joseph. The seven invocations, in Latin, are Custos Redemptoris, Serve Christi, Minister salutis, Fulcimen in difficultatibus, Patrone exsulum, Patrone afflictorum, and Patrone pauperum. The Congregation for Divine Worship and...
Refugees and migrants are often blamed for problems in host societies but the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) shows they capable of forming caring and sharing communities. Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, the prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, made the comment during...
The First World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly will be celebrated on Sunday 25 July, announced the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life in a press release on Tuesday. The theme chosen by Pope Francis for this inaugural commemoration is “I am with...
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle baptized children in Rome and reminded parents of the deeper meaning of the sacrament, “which is at times reduced to custom”. During April 12 Thanksgiving Mass, he administered the sacrament on two Filipino toddlers — a boy and a girl — at...
The Holy Father, Pope Francis, was so happy to join through a video message from Rome, in the celebration of the 5th centenary of the beginning of evangelization in the Philippines, on Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021. His message centered on the three mysteries of our...
Pope Francis led the Way of the Cross, featuring meditations prepared by children, at the Vatican on Good Friday evening. With Italy still facing coronavirus restrictions, this was the second year in succession that the Via Crucis was not held at the Colosseum, a Roman amphitheater...