Pope thanks well-wishers for prayers; Vatican says recovery going smoothly
ROME (CNS) -- Pope Francis has thanked people for their prayers and many messages of support and affection, said Matteo Bruni, director of the Vatican...
Read MoreROME (CNS) -- Pope Francis has thanked people for their prayers and many messages of support and affection, said Matteo Bruni, director of the Vatican...
Read More(OSV News) – Calling on Catholics to pray for the victims of a stabbing at a local playground, French Bishop Yves Le Saux of Annecy said the horrific...
Read MoreROME (CNS) -- Among the many messages Pope Francis has been getting over the course of his first full day recovering from abdominal surgery at Rome's Gemelli...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) – The flag of Vatican City, yellow and white with crossed keys under the papal tiara, is incorrect in many emojis, flying outside...
Read MoreLVIV, Ukraine (OSV News) -- Leading forensic experts at the British University of Exeter are collecting evidence and testimonies of Russian war crimes...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Holy Spirit invites the faithful to share in God's love and to make the church a loving home whose door is open to everyone,...
Read MoreOSV News) -- A Catholic parish priest accused of "offending state authorities" in Belarus said he understood the hardships facing prisoners of conscience...
Read More(OSV News) -- Nicaragua has frozen the bank accounts of dioceses nationwide as the regime of President Daniel Ortega escalates its persecution of the Catholic...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis will have nine events with young people, including hearing their confessions and eating lunch with them, during his...
Read MoreROME (CNS) -- Pope Francis was conscious and alert after a three-hour abdominal surgery that was performed "without complications" to treat a hernia, the...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis was scheduled to undergo surgery at Rome's Gemelli hospital June 7 to treat a hernia that had developed at an incision...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Individuals become Christian because they have been touched by Christ's love, not because they have been convinced or coerced by...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Institute for the Works of Religion, often referred to as the Vatican bank, made a net profit of 29.6 million euros (about $31.6...
Read MoreLVIV, Ukraine (OSV News) -- Pope Francis' peace envoy to Ukraine, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, was finishing his two-day visit to Ukraine June 6. He met President...
Read MoreROME (CNS) -- Pope Francis returned to the hospital for a brief medical checkup June 6, the Vatican said. In a statement to journalists, Matteo Bruni,...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A faster change of course away from today's throwaway culture and toward greater care for the common good is necessary to ensure...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis named Tracey Rowland, an Australian theologian; Justin Farrell, a U.S. sociologist; and Tongdong Bai, a Chinese philosopher,...
Read MoreBALASORE, India (OSV News) -- Government authorities June 4 were working to get rail services back in operation in the district of Balasore after the deadliest...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica, celebrated a penitential rite at the basilica's main altar June 3 after...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has named U.S. Cardinal Kevin J. Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life, to be the next president...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, the retired archbishop of Naples, celebrated his 80th birthday June 2 and, consequently, became ineligible...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The greatest way of life is serving others, and those in political power must see themselves as servants, too, Pope Francis said. "Yet,...
Read MoreDUBLIN (OSV News) -- Once a Catholic giant, Ireland is becoming less religious, census data shows. Just over half of the residents of the Irish capital,...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- As first Communion season winds down and wedding fever rises, Catholic counters are busy. The Central Office of Church Statistics,...
Read More(OSV News) -- From national television newscasts to radio shows to podcasts, media across France this Pentecost were mesmerized by an annual pilgrimage...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The most powerful and effective method of evangelization is to live according to what one teaches and preaches, Pope Francis said. "I...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Of the more than 1,300 Marian images crowned around the world, one of the first to receive this honor does not have a crown today. For...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis called on the international community to work concretely against torture and to guarantee support to victims and their...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Catholics should make an "examination of conscience" about how they use social media, how they allow it to influence them and about...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Catholic Church's current Synod of Bishops should not be a "parliament for demanding rights," but a "journey in accordance with...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- World No Tobacco Day is observed every May 31 to highlight the harmful effects of tobacco on people's health and the environment. Because...
Read MoreMEXICO CITY (OSV News) -- A parish priest was shot dead as he drove on a rural Mexican highway May 22, marking yet another attack in what has become the...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Christians should pray on Pentecost that the Holy Spirit would give them the courage and strength to share the Gospel, Pope Francis...
Read More(OSV News) -- When Pope Benedict XVI instituted the Day of Prayer for Catholics in China in 2007, Aloysius Jin Luxian was bishop of Shanghai. That year,...
Read More(OSV News) -- The Scottish Catholic bishops have signed a public statement of protest against a bill to legalize assisted suicide in their country. They...
Read MoreKRAKOW, Poland (OSV News) -- For 17 years, the media ethics conference at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow has gathered media researchers...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis will visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Fátima during his trip to Portugal for World Youth Day 2023, the Vatican said. In...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis formally recognized the martyrdom of an Italian priest shot by Nazi soldiers after they discovered he was helping his...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Global security cannot be guaranteed through stockpiling nuclear weapons but must be centered on an "equitable distribution of the...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has asked Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna to lead a mission "to help ease tensions in the conflict in Ukraine,"...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The man who drove past two security checkpoints to enter a Vatican courtyard May 18 was taken to the psychiatric ward of a hospital...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A popular blog that closely monitors the Vatican has reported that Pope Francis wants to send envoys to Moscow and Kyiv to begin...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican has pulled from circulation a World Youth Day stamp of Pope Francis with young people in an image that resembles propaganda...
Read More(OSV News) -- On May 11, when the Title 42 public health order comes to an end, processing of migrants will be fully reinstated under Title 8, a measure...
Read MoreBUENOS AIRES (OSV News) -- Argentina's Catholic Church is going through a process of soul-searching as the country gets ready for general elections in...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Although she died centuries ago, the English mystic Julian of Norwich continues to remind people of the importance of "faith in God's...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In encouraging the peaceful resolution of conflicts and in promoting the common good on the international stage, the Vatican embraces...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis criticized the passage of a law by Portugal's parliament to legalize euthanasia in the country. The controversial law...
Read MoreROME (CNS) -- Drastic leadership changes in Caritas Internationalis were essential to repair workplace dynamics that "represented clear and real dangers"...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- After literally hundreds of public prayers for peace in Ukraine and 443 days after Russia launched an all-out war on the Eastern...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors has been trying to define more clearly its relationship with the Dicastery...
Read MoreLIVERPOOL, England (OSV News) -- An English Catholic bishop has denounced the first reported births of "three-parent" babies in the UK as "deeply concerning." Auxiliary...
Read MoreROME (CNS) -- Starting a family and having children has become a kind of herculean task when instead it should be valued and supported by everyone, Pope...
Read MoreJERUSALEM (OSV News) -- Faith leaders and activists for coexistence from across Israel gathered in prayer in front of the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has continued his predecessors' serious commitment to ecumenical dialogue, but he also makes ecumenical gestures that...
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