Vatican

'Click To Pray' 2.0 at the service of the synodal process

Oct 20, 2021

A new and updated version of the Pope’s prayer app helps the faithful pray for a synodal Church.
Pope: The dignity of the patient comes before sickness and profit

Oct 19, 2021

Pope Francis receives in audience a delegation from the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital of Rome and commends its work and Christian approach to healthcare.
Pope Francis: A Bishop is called to a life of service

Oct 18, 2021

Pope Francis ordains two new bishops during Holy Mass in St Peter’s Basilica on Sunday, telling them their life is one of service and closeness to others.
Pope Francis to meet five hundred poor in Assisi on November 12

Oct 18, 2021

Pope Francis will visit Assisi, Italy on Nov. 12, where he will spend time with a group of 500 poor people from across Europe, the Vatican announced on Oct. 15, Friday.
May the Holy Spirit renew the grace of Baptism in us

Oct 18, 2021

Addressing pilgrims gathered for the Sunday Angelus, Pope Francis invites us to ask the Holy Spirit to renew the grace of Baptism in us, the immersion in Jesus, in his way of being, in service.
Pope remembers victims of attacks in Norway, Afghanistan and UK

Oct 18, 2021

Pope Francis remembered the victims of violence over the past week in attacks taking place in Norway, Afghanistan, and the UK. He also recalled the beatification of Fr. Juan Elías Medina and 126 companions martyred in Spain in the 1930s.
Los Angeles renames Father Junipero Serra Park, despite Catholic praise for sainted missionary

Oct 18, 2021

While Catholic leaders have made strong defenses of St. Junipero Serra after a wave of vandalism and crime targeted Catholic statues and churches last year, political leaders in California continue to remove markers of the missionary whom Pope Francis canonized as the first Hispanic American saint.
Pope urges Church to leave behind “outworn pastoral models”

Oct 16, 2021

Pope Francis on October 10 officially launched the two-year synod process in an opening Mass where he urged the global Catholic Church to leave behind outworn pastoral models.
Pope: ‘I will never tire of upholding the dignity of work’

Oct 15, 2021

Pope Francis sends a video message to an event in Argentina that aims to find sustainable solutions to business development safeguarding the dignity and rights of workers and their families.
Pope to pharmacists: Don't let the 'culture of waste' affect you

Oct 15, 2021

Pope Francis receives in audience a delegation of the Italian Society of Hospital Pharmacy and of the Pharmaceutical Services of Health Authorities (SIFO), ahead of its national congress.