Today’s Catholic must-reads: 02/03/11
Vatican spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi has condemned the assassination of Pakistani Catholic cabinet minister Shahbaz Bhatti. Benedict XVI described St Francis de Sales as a revolutionary figure at the...
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Israel’s prime minister has thanked the Pope for rejecting the charge that the Jewish people were responsible for killing Jesus. Residents of Vatican City will no longer be automatically granted...
View Article‘We must all take responsibility to evangelise,’ says Pope Francis
The clergy are not solely responsible for spreading the Gospel, Pope Francis said in his morning homily on Wednesday. The Pope spoke at Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, the Vatican...
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Talks between Israel and the Holy See seem to be heading for a successful conclusion after 16 years of meetings, Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto, the Apostolic Nuncio to Israel, has said. A diocese in...
View ArticlePope Francis consecrates Vatican City with Benedict XVI by his side
With retired Pope Benedict XVI sitting next to him, Pope Francis recited separate prayers to consecrate Vatican City to St Joseph and St Michael the Archangel. The early morning ceremony in the Vatican...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 25/02/14
Pope Francis has called for prayers for October’s synod of bishops in a letter to the world’s families (video). Cardinal Keith O’Brien could face a new investigation by the Vatican, the Scottish...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 19/08/14
Francis has told reporters on the flight home from South Korea that he would go to China “tomorrow” if he were invited (full text 1, full text 2). The Serbian Orthodox Church has issued a statement...
View ArticlePope Francis: ‘During Auschwitz silence, I prayed for all victims of war and...
Pope Francis says while visiting the former Auschwitz and Birkenau Nazi death camps in Poland he reflected on today’s cruelties in “this world sick with cruelty, violence and suffering.” In recounting...
View ArticleCardinals oppose ‘perverse’ plan to open a McDonald’s in Vatican City
McDonald’s plan to open its first restaurant in Vatican City has prompted criticism from cardinals living above the proposed site. The fast food giant is reportedly willing to pay “a few tens of...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 16/11/16
Cuba has pardoned 787 prisoners in a Year of Mercy gesture. Islamist “hyperextremism” is a threat to global peace, Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need has said. Vatican City has taken new steps...
View ArticleVatican approves association for female employees
Women – lay and religious – make up almost 20 per cent of the Vatican workforce, and a group of them have formed an association designed as a forum for collaboration, sharing and outreach. “D.VA” – for...
View ArticleHow to get tickets for papal audiences and Masses in the Vatican
The Pope presides in the Vatican over liturgical masses throughout the year and also leads weekly general audiences and Angelus celebrations. These events take place either in St Peter’s Square, St...
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