Vatican

Pope to Fabbrica di San Pietro: Technology is ‘a gift and responsibility’

Nov 12, 2024

The Vatican's Fabbrica di San Pietro receives a challenge from Pope Francis: to use modern technology to preserve St. Peter's Basilica in a "proper and constructive way."
Vatican prohibits Traditional Latin Mass in Bishop Strickland’s former cathedral

Nov 12, 2024

Celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass in the cathedral of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, will cease effective Dec. 1, according to a Vatican-approved order that comes almost one year after Pope Francis removed Bishop Joseph Strickland, one of his most outspoken critics, as head of the diocese.
Pope at Angelus: Offer tenderness and steer clear of hypocrisy

Nov 11, 2024

During his Sunday Angelus address, Pope Francis reiterates the Lord's call to rebuke and avoid hypocrisy, and to instead humbly serve with tenderness.
Pope: Christians in Middle East bear witness in lands martyred by war

Nov 11, 2024

Pope Francis meets with Mar Awa III, Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, and includes St. Isaac of Nineveh, a 7th-century Assyrian Bishop, in the official Roman Martyrology.
Pope: May example of Blessed Fr. Torres Padilla sustain priests in their ministry

Nov 11, 2024

During the Sunday Angelus, Pope Francis praises the example of Fr. José Torres Padilla, co-founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Company of the Cross, beatified in Seville, Spain, yesterday by Cardinal Marcello Semeraro.
Pope remembers victims of Indonesia volcano, prays for world peace

Nov 11, 2024

During the Sunday Angelus, Pope Francis offered his prayers and sympathies with victims of the volcanic eruption in Indonesia and flood victims in Valencia, Spain. He appealed for dialogue over unrest in Mozambique and an end to bloodshed in Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, Myanmar and Sudan.
Vatican publishes first report on Church safeguarding efforts

Nov 08, 2024

Ten years since its establishment, the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors releases a report compiled by a dedicated study group that conducted extensive research across five continents from Africa to Oceania.
Pope to religious sisters: ‘A sad saint is a sad kind of saint’

Nov 08, 2024

Pope Francis urges all nuns and priests to appreciate the many graces they enjoy as part of religious communities, as he meets with the Augustinian Sisters of Talavera de la Reina in Spain.
Cardinal Parolin offers best wishes to Trump on election victory

Nov 08, 2024

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an event at the Gregorian University, Cardinal Secretary of State expresses his hope that US President-elect Trump will govern with wisdom, “because this is the principal virtue of leaders according to the Bible.”
Pope to seminarians: 'A priest not close to his bishop is lame'

Nov 08, 2024

Pope Francis challenged seminarians and clergy from Toledo, Spain to foster closeness with God, their bishops, their fellow priests, and the People of God.