International
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Vatican launches social media campaign to rediscover ‘Christus vivit’
By Admin Webmaster 3/2/2024 6:54:02 AMThe Vatican’s Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life is promoting a social media campaign aimed at helping people rediscover the relevance of Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation for Young People and keeping the experience of World Youth Day alive.
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Epilogue: Made in God’s image and called to proclaim Christ
By Admin Webmaster 3/2/2024 6:36:20 AMReligious life as we know it today, both contemplative and active, has evolved over two millennia. In this final of four articles, Christine Schenk provides an analysis regarding what may have led early Christian women to be active contributors to the building of the church.
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Pope: Embrace your vulnerabilities!
By Admin Webmaster 3/2/2024 6:43:43 AMPope Francis addresses a conference on vulnerability and community and invites all the participants to embrace their vulnerabilities and accept those who are vulnerable, just as Jesus did.
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IMBISA Bishops and representatives attend formation on safeguarding
By Admin Webmaster 3/2/2024 5:45:40 AMSouthern African Catholic Bishops under IMBISA, a regional association of Bishops, have met in Pretoria, South Africa, for a week of safeguarding formation conducted by the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.
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Cardinal Cantalamessa gives second Lenten sermon
By Admin Webmaster 3/1/2024 8:46:33 PMCardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, the Preacher of the Papal Household, delivers his second sermon for Lent 2024 to Roman Curia, reflecting on Jesus as the light of the world.
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Pope Francis: Gender ideology is the ugliest danger of our time
By Admin Webmaster 3/1/2024 8:36:13 PMAddressing participants in the international Symposium "Man-Woman: Image of God.” Pope Francis describes so-called gender ideology as the "ugliest danger" of our time, because it cancels out all differences that make humanity.
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Pope Francis' liturgical celebrations for Holy Week and Easter
By Admin Webmaster 2/29/2024 9:32:42 PMThe Holy See Press Office releases the official calendar of Pope Francis' Liturgical Celebrations for March 2024, which includes Holy Week and Easter Sunday celebrations, as well as the Via Crucis at the Colosseum.
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Bishops of the Americas aim at more synodal and missionary Church
By Admin Webmaster 2/29/2024 9:28:52 PMBishops from Canada, the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean hold a three-day summit in the US city of Tampa “to pray and discuss their shared ministry as pastors.”
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Pope tells Argentinian judges to let Jesus guide efforts to protect rights
By Admin Webmaster 2/29/2024 8:57:31 AMWarning against profound injustices existent in our times, Pope Francis sends video message to the Pan-American Committee of Judges for Social Rights and Franciscan Doctrine in Argentina, and encourages them in their work to protect the rights of the vulnerable and suffering.
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Pope at Audience: God's power is made perfect in weakness
By Admin Webmaster 2/28/2024 8:47:53 PMDuring his weekly General Audience, Pope Francis continues his catechesis series on virtues and vices, this week focusing on the sins of envy and vainglory, suggesting there are remedies to each, both of which involve making ourselves less at the center, embracing weakness, and letting God operate in our lives.
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Pope calls for prayer for Burkina Faso, Haiti
By Admin Webmaster 2/28/2024 8:42:21 PMAt the conclusion of the Wednesday General Audience, Pope Francis invites the faithful to pray for Burkina Faso and for Haiti, and not to forget the people of Ukraine, of Palestine and Israel, and all those suffering due to war.
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Meeting with Armenian bishops, Pope Francis prays for peace
By Admin Webmaster 2/28/2024 8:32:49 PM“How many conflicts and massacres have we witnessed, always tragic and always pointless?” the Pope asks. “Let us all take up the cry for peace."
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Pope Francis visits Rome hospital for diagnostic tests
By Admin Webmaster 2/28/2024 8:23:44 PMFollowing the weekly General Audience, Pope Francis, who has been suffering from mild flu symptoms in the past days, visits Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on the Tiber Island for some diagnostic tests.
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Pope's March prayer intention: For the martyrs of our day
By Admin Webmaster 2/28/2024 9:50:37 AMPope Francis releases his prayer intention for March, asking for prayers for the martyrs of our day, and recalling a story he was told by a widowed Muslim man who recounted the martyrdom of his Christian wife as she defied terrorists.
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A EU military intervention in Ukraine is “frightening”, says Cardinal Parolin
By Admin Webmaster 2/28/2024 9:45:52 AMClosing the award ceremony of the “Economy and Society” International Prize awarded by the Centesimus Annus Foundation , Cardinal Secretary of State expresses strong concerns over a further escalation of the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, where, he says the only solution is a cease-fire.
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Irish bishops express concern over constitutional amendments on family
By Admin Webmaster 2/28/2024 9:42:19 AMCommenting on the upcoming referendums on Family and Care, the Irish bishops say that the proposed constitutional amendments diminish the “unique” importance of the relationship between marriage and family, and stress that he role of mothers should continue to be cherished in the Constitution.
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Church leaders in Philippines call for protected status of the "Amazon of Oceans"
By Admin Webmaster 2/28/2024 9:37:12 AMThe coordinator of the "Laudato Si" program of the Philippine Bishops' Conference calls for special marine protection of the "Verde Island Passage" off the coast of Mindoro island in the Philippines, known as the "Amazon of the Oceans" where a massive oil spill took place in early 2023.
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Cameroon: Cardinal Turkson visits Douala
By Admin Webmaster 2/28/2024 9:31:03 AMCardinal Peter Turkson recently made a 4-day visit to the Archdiocese of Douala, where he presided over a mass of priestly ordination. Present at the ordination were the Archbishop of Doula, Samuel Kleda and the Apostolic Nuncio to Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, Archbishop José Avelino Bettencourt.
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Fiducia Supplicans: Non-liturgical blessings, and Pope Benedict's distinction
By Admin Webmaster 2/27/2024 8:36:12 PMAn Instruction published in 2000 by the then-Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith distinguished between rituals inserted into liturgical books and pastoral or spontaneous prayers. The same criterion is now being used to admit the possibility of blessing irregular couples.
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Online course on women and synodality launched
By Admin Webmaster 2/27/2024 7:19:53 PMThe World Union of Catholic Women's Organizations (WUCWO) launches a new series of webinars on "The mission of women in the synodal Church".
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Archbishop Fisichella presides at Mass at first international shrine in the Philippines
By Admin Webmaster 2/27/2024 8:41:50 AMThe Pro-Prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Evangelization presides over a Mass of Thanksgiving at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage, which was recently declared the first international shrine in the Philippines.
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Pope cancels Monday Audiences as precautionary measure
By Admin Webmaster 2/26/2024 9:02:34 PMDue to persistent, mild flu-like symptoms, Pope Francis cancels his Monday audiences.
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Pope pleads for just and lasting peace in Ukraine
By Admin Webmaster 2/25/2024 10:06:13 PMPope Francis notes the anniversary of the beginning of the large-scale war in Ukraine, and pleads for a diplomatic solution aimed at “a just and lasting peace.”
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Pope: Education is an act of hope for a better society
By Admin Webmaster 2/25/2024 10:10:45 PMIn a message addressed to participants in a conference in Madrid on the Church’s commitment in education in Spain, Pope Francis highlights the importance for Catholic institutions to ensure that education is accessible to all.
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Archbishop Pezzi on Ukraine: Each horror opposes any act of goodness
By Admin Webmaster 2/25/2024 10:01:09 PMTwo years after the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Archbishop Paolo Pezzi of the Archdiocese of the Mother of God at Moscow reflects on changing hearts to become artisans of peace.
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Pope at Angelus: Let's open ourselves to the light of Jesus!
By Admin Webmaster 2/25/2024 9:52:56 PMDuring his weekly Sunday Angelus, Pope Francis offers the faithful a 'good Lenten resolution', inviting them to open themselves to the light of Jesus and to never let anything divert their glance from it.
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Lord’s Day Reflection: ‘From desert to mountain’
By Admin Webmaster 2/25/2024 9:41:47 PMAs the Church marks the Second Sunday of Lent, Fr. Edmund Power, OSB, offers his thoughts on the day’s liturgical readings under the theme: “From desert to mountain”.
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Bambino Gesù, for two years caring for young Ukrainian patients fleeing from war
By Admin Webmaster 2/25/2024 7:49:04 AMSince the full scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia exactly two years ago, approximately 2,500 minors from the attacked country have been treated at the Vatican's Bambino Gesu pediatric hospital.
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Nuncio to Ukraine: Despite two years of death, hope and faith
By Admin Webmaster 2/25/2024 7:49:29 AMIn a wide-ranging interview with Vatican Media, the Apostolic Nuncio to Ukraine, Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas, reflects on two years since the full scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
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Pope cancels audiences due to mild flu
By Admin Webmaster 2/24/2024 7:36:48 PMThe Holy See Press Office informed journalists that Pope Francis has cancelled his engagements on Saturday “as a precautionary measure.”