Cardinal unveils major Vatican conference on priesthood slated for 2022
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — 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…
Pope calls all Catholics to be missionaries of God’s mercy
ROME (CNS) — 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…
Cardinal Cassidy, Vatican’s former top ecumenist, dies at 96
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — 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…
Pope ‘moved’ by registry of nighttime adoration he attended
Pope Francis said he was “moved” by a photo of an old registry that showed his participation as a young man at sessions of overnight eucharistic adoration at a basilica…
Solidarity needed to reduce debt of poor nations, pope tells World Bank
Poor countries cannot be expected to recover from the current financial crisis if the world returns to an economic model in which a small minority of people owns half of…
Saints accompany, intercede for Christians in prayer, pope says
Christians are never alone in prayer but instead are accompanied by myriad saints who protect them and seek God’s intercession, Pope Francis said. Whenever men or women open their hearts…
Pope asks Filipinos to celebrate the gift of faith and pass it on
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — As bishops across the Philippines opened “holy doors” at their cathedrals, Pope Francis sent a video message encouraging Filipino Catholics to celebrate the 500th anniversary of…
UPDATE: Christ’s victory over death proclaims a second chance for all, pope says
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Easter liturgies — with the fire, sharing of light from the paschal candle, the renewal of baptismal promises and the proclamation that Jesus has risen…
Pope leads Via Crucis with young people in torch-lit St. Peter’s Square
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — For the second year in a row, Pope Francis led the Way of the Cross from St. Peter’s Square rather than Rome’s Colosseum because of the…
Cardinal, at pope’s Good Friday service, decries divisions within church
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — 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…
