Pope apologizes for treatment of Indigenous in Canada, promises to visit April 1, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, Vatican, World News Expressing “sorrow and shame” for the complicity of Catholics in abusing Indigenous children in Canada and helping in the attempt to erase their culture, Pope Francis pledged to address the issue more fully when he visits Canada.
Ukrainian archbishop tearfully recounts the horrors, heroism of war March 30, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News With his voice often trembling and tears sliding down to his beard, the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church spoke via Zoom about the death and destruction Russia is raining down on his people and his country.
Canadian Indigenous give pope moccasins, ask him to walk with them March 28, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, Vatican, World News Members of the Métis National Council gave Pope Francis a set of beaded moccasins and asked him to walk with them on the path of truth, justice and healing of Canada’s Indigenous communities and their relationship with the Catholic Church, said Cassidy Caron, president of the council.
Opening Curia posts to laity, pope is implementing Vatican II, experts say March 21, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News A Vatican office led by a cardinal or archbishop has no more authority than one led by a layperson because all offices of the Roman Curia act in the name of the pope, said experts presenting Pope Francis’ new constitution on the Curia’s organization.
Pope promulgates Curia reform, emphasizing church’s missionary nature March 20, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Nine years after taking office, Pope Francis promulgated his constitution reforming the Roman Curia, a project he began with his international College of Cardinals shortly after taking office in 2013.
Papa llama a los católicos a ser misioneros de la misericordia de Dios April 13, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: En Español Como los discípulos, que experimentaron la divina misericordia de Jesús después de la resurrección, todos los cristianos están llamados a convertirse en misioneros, compartiendo el Evangelio del amor y la misericordia de Dios con los demás, expresó el papa Francisco.
Cardinal unveils major Vatican conference on priesthood slated for 2022 April 13, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News Increasing vocations to the priesthood, improving the way laypeople and priests work together and ensuring that service, not power, motivates the request for ordination are all possible outcomes of a major symposium being planned by the Vatican in February 2022.
Pope calls all Catholics to be missionaries of God’s mercy April 11, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Missionary Disciples, News, Vatican, World News Like the disciples, who experienced Jesus’ divine mercy after the resurrection, all Christians are called to become missionaries, sharing the Gospel of God’s love and mercy with others, Pope Francis said.
Cardinal Cassidy, Vatican’s former top ecumenist, dies at 96 April 11, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Obituaries, Vatican, World News Australian Cardinal Edward I. Cassidy, a longtime Vatican diplomat and former president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, died April 10 at the age of 96 in Newcastle, Australia.
Cardinal, at pope’s Good Friday service, decries divisions within church April 2, 2021By Cindy Wooden Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Easter, Feature, News, Vatican, World News As Pope Francis presided over the Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion, the preacher of the papal household called on bishops and all Catholics to examine their consciences for ways they may be harming the unity of the Catholic Church.
Further measures needed to combat financial crime at Vatican, pope says March 30, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Signaling further reforms of the Vatican City State penal code, particularly when it comes to financial crimes, Pope Francis said the laws must reflect “the equality of all members of the church” by doing away with “privileges that go back in time and are no longer in keeping with the responsibility of each for building up of the church.”
Virtual closeness, real community: Pope’s ministry flourished online March 25, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis, his liturgy office and his communications team made very deliberate decisions over the past year with the goal of letting people experience how close the pope was to them in their isolation and suffering.
