PHOTOS: Nighttime eucharistic adoration in St. Peter’s Square
The March adoration was led by Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, OFM Conv, who is the archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica. The holy hour was offered for Pope Francis in light of…
U.S. Bishop Daniel Flores to help prepare Synod on Synodality assembly
Born in Texas, he was ordained a Catholic priest for the Diocese of Corpus Christi in 1988. In 2000, he received a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical University of…
Pro-lifers in Mexico call for ban on surrogate motherhood
Pilar Rebollo, director of Steps for Life, charged that surrogate motherhood “or any form of exploitation of female fertility violates women more than what has been done for centuries.” According…
Historic building near Vatican to become Four Seasons hotel
The order is a lay institution under the protection of the Holy See whose first mention in historical records dates to 1336. Today, the charitable group has approximately 30,000 members…
Biden calls bans on transgender treatments for children ‘close to sinful’
“It’s not like, you know, a kid wakes up one morning and says, ‘You know, I decided I want to become a man or I want to become a woman,”…
Catholic universities should do more to respond to environmental issues, Vatican cardinal says
“We exist only within a web of relationships,” Czerny said, with God, with our neighbor, and with the earth itself. In promoting concern for our neighbors, Jesus’ parable of the…
A timeline of Pope Francis’ 10 years as pope
Sept. 4 — The pope canonizes St. Teresa of Calcutta, who is also known as Mother Teresa. The saint, a nun from Albania, dedicated her life to missionary and charity…
‘The Office’ star, reacting to cannibal pastor in ‘The Last of Us,’ blasts ‘anti-Christian bias’ in Hollywood
I do think there is an anti-Christian bias in Hollywood. As soon as the David character in “The Last of Us”started reading from the Bible I knew that he was…
Pope Francis celebrates Mass, records ‘popecast’ for 10th anniversary
These past 10 years were lived in this tension, he added. Pope Francis’ schedule was free of public meetings on March 13 except for a Mass at 8 a.m. in…
EWTN CEO Michael Warsaw: Catholic journalists called to be ‘truth tellers’
“What you see in secular media, they try to create an unoffensive Jesus, a Jesus who’s just a teacher of love, not the Jesus who says, ‘I’m the way, the…
Pope Francis: People are looking for ‘an oasis in the Church’
Crowds watch Pope Francis’ Angelus address and prayer on March 12, 2023. Vatican Media Pope Francis said the words of Jesus, “give me a drink,” also teach us about our…
Pope Francis as diplomat: the principles that have guided his 10-year-old pontificate
The mediation of the Holy See Cuba has been the site of two of the most important successes of the pontificate: the meeting with Patriarch Kirill and the reopening of…